Re: KHTML in GNUStep?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

How about re-using the code from Mail.app?
I guess it can display HTML messages, isn't it?

~Mayuresh


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Stefan [ISO-8859-1] B?hringer wrote:

> I don't know about what API KHTML offers, however, the way GNUstep
> should probably handle HTML was discussed before.
> In GNUstep the Text System (will) offer all the functionality needed to
> display sophisticated HTML. All that is needed is a proper HTML parser,
> which also is capable of doing the layout.
> This brings me back to my promise of implementing the HTML parser. Due
> to lack of time only a skeleton is finished now, which recognizes basic
> text attributes (bold, italic and the like). Perhaps I should submit now
> to let others participate.
> The only major thing needed, as far as I can see, is table support. I
> would volunteer to implement this as well, since I have prior art to
> stem on. However, I cannot promise anything here.
>
> The second major thing is an internal API in GNUstep which supports
> parsing of layouts rather than of attributed string. Nothing has been
> devised so far. This is certainly a necessity for GNUstep since many
> interesting text formats support more complex texts than can be
> represented by attributed strings.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>       Stefan
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:52, thomas@customercd.com wrote:
> > What would be entailed in creating a functional equivalent to KHTML using 
> > pure
> > objective-C ?
> >
> > -Thomas Cherryhomes / OpenMINDS Research
> >
> >
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>
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