GSoC 2010: Web scripting

[Dmitriy Taychenachev]

Hi folks,

I'm interested in participating GSoC of this year. I'd like to implement the 
greasmonkey script support for konqueror/khtml (since it's what I'm using for 
last few years). AFAIR there was a draft of web scripting in playground (I 
have seen it about an year ago), but I can't find it through the svn history, 
so I don't know how the real state of it. So I have done my own research of 
how this could be implemented. Since the greasmonkey technique is based on 
standard dom listeners, which are about to work in khtml, the actual part to 
implement is js interface of greasmonkey and packaging management.

My first idea was to implement the whole thing as a separate konqueror plugin, 
but stumbled upon the kjs interface - for some reasons it doesn't export raw 
interface, exporting higher level kjsapi instead, which is not suitable for 
interning into khtml part's js interpreter. So the script-related routines 
should be implemented in khtml directly (or at least somewhere in kdelibs). 
The api that greasmonkey provides for the scripts is not too big (persistant 
config storage, resource-acquiring routines, css modifier, debuggin stuff and 
few hackish things). All that things surely could be done inside khtml.

What's left for plugin is a package manager and the storage of resources. The 
interaction of external plugin and internal part may be done directly through 
the khtmlpart interface.

Unfortunately I have noticed that GSoC is already going too late and I have 
not yet produced some kind of draft (I wanted to but since my first attempt 
with pure plugin failed, it turned to be more work to dive into khtml itself).

I'd like to have some feedback to know if the proposal worths writing an real 
application document.

Thanks, Dmitriy.