FOUC

[David Hyatt]

Let me know if I can help in any way, even if it's just to verify 
whether or not a particular code fix had anything to do with FOUC. :)

Dave

On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 02:38 AM, Alexander Kellett wrote:

> (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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