
This file contains a random assortment of notes that might be helpful to
someone hacking on wmpjs and related modules.


THE BIG PICTURE

When you call $mech->get(...), wmpdom’s parse_html handler is called, which
1. creates an HTML::DOM object,
2. installs script and event handlers,
3. sets the defaultView to a Window object¹,
4. sets the Window object’s document to the DOM object and
5. passes the HTML code through to the DOM object, which
    1. creates the tree,
    2. running any scripts² and 
    3. creating event handlers.
6. Finally, it triggers the load event.

¹There is only one window object for each Mech object.  The DOM  plugin
 stores these in a field hash. It creates a new one only when necessary.

²When a script is run, if it is a JS script, the JS plugin starts the
 script engine if it is not already started.

When the script engine is started:
1. wmpjs passes the Window object to the JS back end’s constructor.
2. The back end creates a new object, making the Window object the global
   object’s delegate.

The back end has to do some magic to make sure that, when the global object
is passed to another JS environment, it gets wrapped up in a proxy object
that delegates to whichever global object corresponds to the  *window*.


WEAK/STRONG REFERENCES

==> strong
--> weak

Mech ==> window --> Mech
                ==> document
     ==> document --> window

If we have an iframe, it’s
                                      ==> win
Mech ==> document ==> iframe ==> mech ==> doc
     ==> window              ==> win ==> doc --> win
                                     --> mech
