We will have to agree to disagree - compared to building a good package system, I don't think it is significantly harder.
On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
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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