Secondly I would agree that WebKit has it's own OS X-related baggage, but that just goes to show that nobody's perfect. It's not an argument for adding more. W

Secondly I would agree that WebKit has it's own OS X-related baggage, but that just goes to show that nobody's perfect. It's not an argument for adding more. We're in agreement then, because what (I think) these patches do is creating a better abstraction for scripting engines. I'm not very familiar with WebKit code base, but if there were similar abstractions for other things, they could get rid of various #ifdefs, for example, for drawing code (CG, Skia, etc.) http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/canvas/CanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp#L962 http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/can... or Dashboard http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/canvas/CanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp#L962 http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/html/can...