KHTML, KJS Unfrozen -- details

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 10:55, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:50:29PM +0000, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > Koos Vriezen wrote, on Tuesday 2006 January 10 10:27 pm:
> > > > > Seriously, since I've added KJS CPU guard, what will be the
> > > > > replacement?
> > > >
> > > >   I don't know yet.
> > >
> > > Any idea how Safari solves this? (I hope we all agree that a script
> > > never may hang konqueror)
> >
> > I think it'd be nice if Javascripts executed incrementally (like on a
> > QTimer(0) ).
>
> This idea is proposed many times. And it would also help when js has to
> waits for modal dialogs (eg. window.alert()) or async dcop/liveconnect
> calls.

   Rich is right, that would be horribly slow.

> But whatever cool things we imagine, we're at the mercy of WebCore now
> ..

  That's not true.  We're free to do whatever we want.  We're just 
synchronized with them at this time, and only in KJS.

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George Staikos
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