[fpc-pascal] HTML or RichText viewer components

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 08/01/2008, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First create HTML 3.2 complaint.. it's easier then HTML 4(.1).
> Then continue to HTML 4.1 :) The TV Pro have HTML 3.2 support...

Easier is always better. :)  What is TV Pro? Google gave me a variety
of results.

>
> There is a DOM. Please note that Om XHTML, the idea is that you have
> the actual data as HTML (or XML) and the part of how to display it (as
> CSS).

Ah, I see there is a DOM unit in FPC I could use.


> Also separate between the rendering and the parsing ! They are two
> different things.
>
> And last, make it library (and API) based as one feature, so we will
> have a parsing and rendering engines to offer other languages, that
> will might create a community all around this project (at some point
> :))

Yes, that is what I had in mind.  The rendering engine could then be
implemented by other toolkits like fpGUI, LCL, MSEgui etc...


Thanks for the quick feedback Ido.  I understand what you mean. Try
and think small. A full blown HTML/RichText viewer is a huge project.
Break it down into small pieces that in the end work together.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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