[SoC] HTML Rendering Projects

[Todd Blanchard]

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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