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diff --git a/chromium/docs/website/site/developers/Web-page-views/index.md b/chromium/docs/website/site/developers/Web-page-views/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2370945dad2 --- /dev/null +++ b/chromium/docs/website/site/developers/Web-page-views/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +breadcrumbs: +- - /developers + - For Developers +page_name: Web-page-views +title: Web page views +--- + +Our original architecture did not have any platform separation in the browser +window and tab layer. WebContents contained a RenderViewHost, and that +implemented a great deal of both logic and view-related functionality. + +We want to make this architecture cleaner and separate out the view from the +cross-platform logic. This document tracks the progress of this work. + +## Current architecture + +We have split out a variety of OS-specific views from WebContents. On Windows, +the objects look like this: + +[<img alt="image" +src="/developers/Web-page-views/WebContents3.png">](/developers/Web-page-views/WebContents3.png) + +The view-related calls from RenderViewHost to WebContentsView are removed from +WebContents completely by using a separate delegate. When RenderViewHost needs +to make a view-related call, it asks its delegate (through the +RenderViewHostDelegate interface) for the "View" delegate. This is implemented +by the WebContentsView.
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