2013-09-01

webkit

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WebKit new attribute cheat sheet

This is a step list explaining how to implement a new
HTML attribute
for WebKit.
I’m going to use
QtWebKit
for this execise but this approach is generic enough to be used for any other backend.
Here is a note for building Qt and QtWebKit on Ubuntu Linux.

First, check if we could build WebKit and test the build with MiniBrowser.

Build WebKit


cd ~/Projects/qt_build/qt5/qtwebkit
make
sudo make install

Test WebKit


cd ~/Projects/qt_build/qt5/qtwebkit/Tools/MiniBrowser/qt
qmake
make
cd ~/Projects/qt_build/qt5/qtwebkit/bin
./MiniBrowser

Now let’s start implementing the new attribute.
I’m going to add this new attribute to
the HTML object element

The code we are going to modify lives here:
Source/WebCore/html

Add token for the new attribute

In file
HTMLAttributeNames.in
add line:

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altsrc

Add rule for the new attribute

In file
HTMLObjectElement.idl
add line:

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[Reflect, URL] attribute DOMString altsrc;

Add code to support the new attribute

In file
HTMLObjectElement.h
add:

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void setAltSrcAttr(const String&);

In file
HTMLObjectElement.cpp
add a new method HTMLObjectElement::setAltSrcAttr :


void HTMLObjectElement::setAltSrcAttr(const String& value)
{
	dataLogF("alt src is: %s\n", value.utf8().data());
}

and change HTMLObjectElement::parseAttribute method to support the new attribute:


void HTMLObjectElement::parseAttribute(const QualifiedName& name,
                                       const AtomicString& value)
{
    ...

    else if (name == altsrcAttr)
        setAltSrcAttr(value);

    ...
}

Test

Create a new file index.html


<object width="400" height="400" data="helloworld.swf" altsrc="myfile.bmp">
</object>

and place it somewhere

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ls ~/Projects/html/index.html

Build and install WebKit with all our changes.


make
sudo make install

Run MiniBrowser.


cd ~/Projects/qt_build/qt5/qtwebkit/bin
./MiniBrowser ../../../../html/index.html

You should see this console output:

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alt src is: myfile.bmp

# linux, ubuntu, webkit

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Leonid Zolotarev

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