On 15 May, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Fandango was the name we were giving to a possible layout engine
> library. I think Vince is more talking about things like nsurl and the
> like for now. I'd still like to see the layout engine rewritten from
> scratch as Fandango.
A "web browser engine", as they're calling them now, is more than just the
layout code.
The engine does most of the work. It essentially takes a URL
and a set of window content-area rectangle coordinates as
arguments. It then retrieves the document corresponding to the
URL and paints a graphical representation of it in the given
rectangle. It also handles links, forms, cookies, client-side
scripting, plug-in loading and other matters.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_engine
Which is pretty much a description of our "core".
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Michael Drake http://www.smoothartist.com/
