Re: [ANN] Update for SimpleWebKit

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Nikolaus,


hns@computer.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have committed the latest additions to SimpleWebKit. Major changes
> are
>
> * added loading of CSS (sub)resources from <link rel="stylesheet">
> * added parsing of CSS (including @media, @import etc.)
> * added a CSS Browser view to SWK-Browser (to compare Apple WebKit to
> SWK)
> * fixed some minor bugs in the XML parser and in the WebResource
> loader (which could have lead to problems in non-CSS areas)
>
> Well, since this is (as usual) work in progress, you won't see much
> change because there is still one missing link: going through the CSS
> tree when rendering HTML tags and applying the attributes.
>
> There is one known bug in the loader: if you @import from a different
> URL-scheme, nothing is imported. And, there are some minor syntax
> parts missing in the style declarations (e.g. [attr~=value]).
>
> This all will be worked on in the next steps to give a much better
> experience (e.g. google.com is now broken without CSS).
>   

I just gave it a try on GNUstep. The good news that nothing is more 
broken that it was before, that everything builds fine and runs as it 
did before, the testpages I use continue to work. This means that the 
internals improved without showing any weaknesses in gnustep and without 
breaking the existing.

Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy any of the new benefits, but we need to 
debug that more, since you asserted that certain stuff worked on the mac 
(like forms+search) and it still doesn't on gnustep.

Anyway, good news.

Riccardo