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

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/4/07, Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rogelio,
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> > I dont think this is enough reason to invent a new ugly language. So we
> > can render broken pages properly. For apple maybe.
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> Invent a new ugly language???   Heh.   No one is doing anything of the sort.  
> ObjC++ has been around for a while.

its not for me then.  i think i will leave it to others to create a
gnustep browser i can use in the near future.

> > 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?
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> 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. :)

of course. i was talking of the extreme case. i thought integration of
khtml into cocoa was the primary motivation for inventing obj-c++.

> > 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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> 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.

we still have uses for an xhtml only application right?

> Later, GJC
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