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

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

Michael Thaler wrote:
> What makes writing HTML parsers/rendering engines really difficult is not 
> parsing correct HTML and showing it. The problem is parsing/showing incorrect 
> HTML. Apple spends a lot of resources testing WebKit with a lot of buggy web 
> pages and make them show reasonably well. Some KDE people consider using 
> WebKit in KDE4 because it is a waste of resources to duplicate all this work.
>
> Personally I think there is absolutely no point in writing some simple HTML 
> parser/rendering engine that doesn't show buggy web pages reasonably well 
> (except as an academic excercise). Who wants to use something like this?
>
> And whats the point in writing a HTML parser/rendering enginge in Objective-C 
> anyway? It is absolutely no difference for the user and it is even no big 
> difference for developers because most of them will never touch the HTML 
> parser/renderer code anyway.
>
> Greetings,
> Michael
>
>
>   

I dont think this is enough reason to invent a new ugly language. So we
can render broken pages properly. For apple maybe.

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?

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.

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