[SoC] HTML Rendering Projects

[stephane ducasse]

On 31 mars 07, at 01:30, Todd Blanchard wrote:

> We will have to agree to disagree - compared to building a good  
> package system, I don't think it is significantly harder.
The point is to build on top of MC or MC2 (adding bytecode loading)
:)

Stef

>
> 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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>> Lukas Renggli
>> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
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