> Is anyone working on a Metacard based browser? I'm just starting on that
> trail, and either I am making some basic mistakes, or it is more complex
> than I thought (as ever).
My guess is, if you're looking to be able to parse the HTML from any
existing Web page, you're in for a thousand and one headaches. One big
problem I see for you is that with there are multiple ways to describe
the same layout information. Will you be able to test for these
situations and parse them accurately? Sometimes, there are dimensional
settings that are included in code which have no bearing in the actual
rendering of the page: how will you determine when these dimensions
should and should not be used? In a nutshell, you're going to have to
fake the browser idiosyncrasies that Web developers have spent years
finding workarounds for.
If your goal is to create a new standard for page description, then maybe
you have a reachable (and laudible) goal, but for current HTML, I would
suggest taking a step back and evaluating if you really have that kind of
time available.
FWIW,
Scott
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