how can I access DataEngines from JavaScript in the Web Plasmoids?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On January 2, 2010, Petri Damstén wrote:
> I think dataengines in webkit plasmoids have worked since KDE 4.3.

since we're talking about webkit plasmoids (<warning>thread hijacking, so 
rude!</warning>) ..

.. there are some things that could be improved for the webkit plasmoids. it 
might be helpful to compile a list and then either create a TODO in svn or on 
techbase.

here's my short list:

* the context menu has things like "reload" which obviously don't work 
properly. those items should be disabled.

* there is the temporary file that is created to hold the style sheet. highly 
inefficient; see the comments in PlasmaWebApplet::makeStylesheet()
for my thoughts on this

* documentation. who knew that there were calls to JavaScript functions called 
themeChanged, init, dataUpdated and configChanged that can (and often are) 
made?

anything else?

(i need to compile a similar list for the QScript engine as well; it too has 
its warts)

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