Hi Adam and Karl,
Thanks for writing, I take your points about where to do what.
I see the points about the back and forth, can we, can't we. I'm not
married to writing javascript so maybe I could help build out some
pieces of DOM in C when the time comes. I remember the tidy5 thread and I
agree that this will be huge, because doesn't this mean you will have an
easier time from now on, doing the types of translations that jSyncup
does? So tidy5 is a big deal! Maybe I should wait a while and see how
the landscape for how to work changes with the parser?
Even if startwindow.js is temporary, it sure has brought us a lot of
functionality for not a lot of code,
to help us see the path ahead, maybe like a prototype.
I know what you mean. In order to get over the chicken and egg problem of
not knowing anything and not knowing how to find out, I did something like
this and compiled a very marked-up edbrowse as a dynamic harness for
loading a web page over and over and playing along with what
happens. What I've observed is that then it raises a question around
generality and specificity: so I'm knee-deep in the real world, weird code
of a live website (like amazon, or yellowpages or yelp), how do I know if
the situations I'm seeing will come up enough generally for the effort to
have been worth it? Or does this uncertainty mean that the
reverse-engineering technique is extraneous? Anyway, I did some of this..
it's like Karl has written from time to time - you also reverse particular
pages because you are trying to get that page working for yourself in the
short term.
I think we all have a lot of other stuff going on in life,
which has slowed us down a bit of late.
I understand.. I have set it down for long periods. I picked edbrowse
back up about a month ago and have been a bit addicted since then.
thanks
Kevin
PS As a short aside, Karl, you have periodically said, I don't foresee
anyone writing journal articles about us. I wonder if someone like Norton
or McAfee would show some interest. Have you considered trying to
interest the anti-malware world in edbrowse as a safe quarantine or
forensic environment for a page containing bad javascript?
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