I'm trying to understand if there is any other way to access the WebKit API directly from from a Haskell (ghc-7.10.2 currently) program without having to go through something like webkitgtk3, which is a Haskell wrapper around WebKitGTK.
It appears WebKitGTK does not expose the full WebKit API, for example these are offered by WebKit:
but not by WebKitGTK:
Is there any way to access the WebKit API of a running WebKit.app or Safari.app especially on OS X but also Linux and Windows?
P.S. Some background to this: I'm developing an application using GHCJS, but since GHCJS is so much slower (and doesn't integrate with all Emacs IDE features, I think), I also want to be able to compile the same (or almost the same) code base using GHC. So I got familiar with webkitgtk and even spent several days trying to get webkitgtk-2.4.9 to build on OS X via Homebrew, because webkitgtk3 only currently builds against 2.4.9, only to find out that the nice and fully featured Canvas API which WebKit exposes is not at all available through WebKitGTK. Hence the search for alternatives. And it is also for this reason I'm adding ghcjs — it is very likely that other users of GHCJS will find this post interesting.
