About the wonderful internet browser

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sat Jun 16 05:44:00 UTC 2001



Jon Hylands wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:23:35 +0300 , danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> 
> > It looks like the image is not the image on which the code grew... can
> > you tell us a bit more about it's history, so we can know what to expect
> > a port might entail (I realize you might not be able to tell us about
> > code that was not meant for release).
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> There is a ton of stuff in that image that doesn't work. I took the source
> code for the browser, which didn't include a lot of the support classes,
> and filed it into a 2.9 image.
> 
> The main problem with the browser as it sits now is that I basically threw
> out all the original layout code to do layout in morphic, and it is
> painful, given the strange ways that morphic does layout. If someone wanted
> to do it right, the way to do it would be to use a constraint system for
> doing the layout.

Do you use the latest morphic layout framework, that appeared in 
2.9alpha- 3.0 - 3.1alpha somewhere ? This framework seems flexible 
and powerfull but I have not fully understood it yet :-)
Karl





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