Squeak textbox and events.
Noel J. Bergman
noel at devtech.com
Sun May 13 01:21:38 UTC 2001
>> Why build yet another proprietary data structure, rather than just use a
>> DOM-tree? That would allow one to leverage existing and coming XML/DOM
>> work.
>
> I doubt that it would be easy to make a quick GUI display engine run off
> of a DOM tree natively [...]
Really? That will come as a shock to the SVG folks, as well as everyone
writing XSL engines.
Besides ... who is talking about running a GUI display engine ala Display
Postscript off of a DOM tree? I am refering to the contents of a document,
which is then rendered by whatever mechanism one wishes to use. The code
could be shared with the HTML browser already present in Squeak.
<> Ok so if we have a flexible DOM based GUI and use SOAP/XML-RPC for a back
<> end, we would have another web browser?
There is already a web browser in Squeak. My observation was that if other
things in Squeak migrated to a DOM model, and the browser were suitably
modified, there would be a gain in functionality at minimum cost.
--- Noel
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