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

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 04.03.2007 um 08:12 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:

> Rogelio,
>
> > I dont think this is enough reason to invent a new ugly language.  
> > So we
> > can render broken pages properly. For apple maybe.
>
> Invent a new ugly language???   Heh.   No one is doing anything of  
> the sort.  ObjC++ has been around for a while.
>
> > Duplication cannot be avoided. Would you rather integrate c++, ada,
> > fortran, .net, java and cobol in obj-c so we can avoid duplicating  
> > what
> > some super project in these language have done?
>
> Heh, funny you should mention this.  This type of thing is done in  
> commercial applications more often than you might think.  I can  
> think of a few examples in my professional career where, yes, it  
> was necessary to integrate with a well tested, well known, library  
> that just happened to be written in another language. :)
>
> > If html is so easy to do wrong and so hard to handle then we put a
> > bullet in the s*****'s head  and move on.
>
> It's not that easy... it's nice to say that we will make a parser  
> that will only handle "correct" HTML, but when you consider that  
> this will make the browser virtually useless for navigating almost  
> half of the web pages out there, the idea looses it's appeal.    If  
> you write a from scratch implementation you will need to handle  
> such pages, if you want anyone to actually use it.

To mention it one more time: If we really want and need to go pure  
ObjC for this we should ask http://www.omnigroup.com/ if they hand us  
their OmniWeb 4.2 implementation with a reasonable licence (and for a  
reasonable price if they insist on this). This stuff is not up to the  
latest in web rendering but it would save us a lot of time if used as  
a starting point.

> Later, GJC

regards, Lars