Re: E10s architecture

On 10/20/09 9:31 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Not a firm one, no. I thought briefly about whether we should have a "remote
> docshell" interface which would unify the local and remote browser APIs, but
> I haven't gone through enough of the API to decide what's best. bz may have
> thoughts too.

Having a unified API is in fact tempting (and imo desirable). 
nsIWebNavigation might be a good start... except for the nsIInputStream 
and nsIDOMDocument and so forth stuff on it.

> Long-term, I'd strongly prefer an interface shared for both local and remote
> iframes, but in order to get fennec demos up short-term I don't think that's
> necessary or realistic.

Agreed.

> * nsIWebProgressListener.onStateChange and .onLocationChange. I don't need
> the nsIRequest, just the flags/status. I don't know how we want to deal with
> the nsIURI aLocation: for now we've just been passing URIs as strings, which
> is probably sufficient for now but may be a pain later.

In particular, for some of our URIs that might not be good enough 
depending on what you want to do with them....

-Boris