[SoC] HTML Rendering Projects

[Lukas Renggli]

> So the really hard work of handling 'wild' HTML and CSS is done.  All
> the project seeks to do is build renderer using a Morphic widget
> hierarchy that implements the CSS box model layout and visually
> represents the DOM.

I don't think it's a realistic project. Even if you have a ready-made
css-annotated parse-tree the whole rendering thing is very
non-trivial. Mozilla, Apple, Opera and Microsoft have spent thousands
of man years into that, and all of these browsers have major flaws.
This cannot just be the thing that they used the wrong language: also
the Smalltalk WithStyle XHTML rendering engine and its predecessors
are far from being perfect. I think that company also spent a
significant amount of time and there are a lot of very smart people
involved. This is nothing a student can do during a summer.

Just my cents,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
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