My thoughts EXACTLY! -Thom
On 3/3/07, Michael Thaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, > I think it is worth to mention SimpleWebKit here - a rough > implementation of > WebView, WebFrame, WebFrameView, WebDataSource etc. - completely > written > in Objective-C without any C++. The reason is that it must cross- > compile > on gcc 2.95.3 for some ARM processors. > > Here is the source code to look at: > http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mySTEP/SimpleWebKit/ > > It is not complete but does HTML parsing - HTML rendering is not yet > available since I don't completely understand > the interaction between WebHTMLDocumentRepresentation, DOMHTML and the > WebHTMLView classes. What makes writing HTML parsers/rendering engines really difficult is not parsing correct HTML and showing it. The problem is parsing/showing incorrect HTML. Apple spends a lot of resources testing WebKit with a lot of buggy web pages and make them show reasonably well. Some KDE people consider using WebKit in KDE4 because it is a waste of resources to duplicate all this work. Personally I think there is absolutely no point in writing some simple HTML parser/rendering engine that doesn't show buggy web pages reasonably well (except as an academic excercise). Who wants to use something like this? And whats the point in writing a HTML parser/rendering enginge in Objective-C anyway? It is absolutely no difference for the user and it is even no big difference for developers because most of them will never touch the HTML parser/renderer code anyway. Greetings, Michael _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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