FOUC

[Alexander Kellett]

(not sure that this message will get through to the list
 mklingens just told me about this list, which i'd not
 even realized existed :) )

Hiya David,

David Hyatt wrote:
> I noticed that Alexander Kel is attempting to merge the FOUC fixes into
> KHTML.  His patch is including some fixes that did not have to do with
> FOUC (in particular some of the setParent hackery for pseudo
> elements... that actually had to do with the arena allocation and not
> with FOUC).

As you probably guessed by knowledge of the khtml code base
is minimal and i'm using the patch splitup mainly as an excuse
to learn some more about it. I realized only after stepping away
from the computer last night that the setParent stuff logically
had nothing to do with FOUC, just that i searched for "assert"
in the hope of fixing nvidia.com - which crashes with the patchset
im using.

> I wish I could give you a single patch that consisted only of FOUC
> fixes, but it was a very incremental addition in our code base, and so
> it was broken up into a single initial patch and many many bug fixes
> that followed. :(

Thought that may be the case as the current patch set i've got
seems to logically implement the feature (and a nice feature it is!)
yet there remains a crash point, probably fixed be the later stuff.
I'm going to try to find the crash fix anyway. This is really interesting
work and I really need a short break from my current project anyway :)

In other words, i'm not part of the khtml team, and am just
enjoying messing around with the code for the moment :)

mvg,
Alex

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