These changes are arbitrarily divided into multiple commits to make it
easier to find potentially introduced bugs with git bisect.Everything:
The modifications in this commit were automatically made using the
following command:
find . -name '*.cpp' -exec sed -i -E 's/dbg\(\) << ("[^"{]*");/dbgln\(\1\);/' {} \;
This patch introduces IPC::Connection which becomes the new base class
of ClientConnection and ServerConnection. Most of the functionality
has been hoisted up to the base class since almost all of it is useful
on both sides.
This gives us the ability to send synchronous messages in both
directions, which is needed for the WebContent server process.
Unlike other servers, WebContent does not mind blocking on a response
from its client.
Instead of painting synchronously whenever a Paint request comes in,
the WebContent process will now buffer pending paints and coalesce
them and defer the actual paint using a zero-timer.
This significantly reduces flickering already, without doing any
double-buffering in the WebContentView widget.
Port the WebContent service to the new MultiInstance mechanism that
Sergey added. This means that every new WebContentView gets its very
own segregated WebContent process.
After layout, we may want to repaint the page, so we now listen for the
PageClient::page_did_invalidate() notification and use it to drive a
client-side repaint.
Note that an invalidation request from LibWeb makes a full roundtrip
to the WebContent client and back since the client drives painting.
The "WebContent" service provides a very restricted instance of LibWeb
running as an unprivileged user account. This will be used to implement
process separation in Browser, among other things.
This first cut of the service only spawns a single WebContent process
when someone connects to /tmp/portal/webcontent. We will soon switch
this over to spawning a new process for each connection.
Since this feature is very immature, we'll be bringing it up inside of
Demos/WebView as a separate demo program. Eventually this will become
a reusable widget that anyone can embed and easily get out-of-process
web content in their GUI.
This is pretty, pretty cool! :^)
