Re: GNUstep Web browser (was Re: WebKit Bounty)

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/5/07, Thom Cherryhomes <thom.cherryhomes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do want to ask, have any of you actually done any of this sort of
> thing before?
>
> It always seems, every time I run a page that's been badly formatted
> through Tidy, it's a crap shoot as to whether it will wind up with the
> same visual representation that was intended in the first place.

thats bad html so it should look bad. we are not trying to grab market
share from these guys you know.

> It's just that you guys are trying to create an elegant solution for
> an ideal world without fully understanding the interaction of all the
> pieces you guys are trying to put together. IF YOU ACTUALLY STUDY
> Gecko or KHTML, you'll find that great lengths have been done to make
> sure that special cases are taken care of, without disturbing the way
> the stream is entered into the parser.
>
> This isn't as simple as you guys are making it out to be, and it's all
> because it was never done RIGHT to begin with.
>
> It's not that this is impossible, but you are creating bigger
> headaches farther down the road, for what? to make sure this fits into
> your world view of how things should be? come on, guys. THINK.

i dont understand the last statement. as far as i know we are avoiding
a big headache. the web is not just about html. thats boring. REST and
xml technologies are a lot more interesting.

I have done a lot of thinking and i can only find out so much.
Somebody has to actually try and find out. i dont make big designs up
front. if thats what you mean by "thinking first" then sorry.

all i care about is xhtml, xslt and xml-fo. the rest is just a bonus.
we are developing within constraints here.

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