From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.99.127.9 with SMTP id a9mr9993010pgd.81.1505247382841; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:16:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.125.198 with SMTP id b189mr30381itc.6.1505247382797; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!127no501611itw.0!news-out.google.com!c139ni177itb.0!nntp.google.com!127no501609itw.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:16:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <90539bec-966b-4a60-b664-e3814a61c2e1@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1205:5055:3750:7068:bb66:f50:503b; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1205:5055:3750:7068:bb66:f50:503b References: <070ecd42-86bd-4edd-acba-f5e352942d5f@googlegroups.com> <90539bec-966b-4a60-b664-e3814a61c2e1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <010a2227-66be-43c8-a3a8-380bdc481e54@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Wasabee 0.0.2 (Ada Web browser) downloads From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:16:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48088 Date: 2017-09-12T13:16:22-07:00 List-Id: > I did have a few questions and ideas: > (1) Would having a SGML parser, and definitions for HTML, XML, XHTML, EDG= AR, etc be desirable? -- It would be a bit more work up-front, but give som= e big returns on flexibility. You certainly know better in this subject. Do you have a SGML parser ? In this case you can test it first in a sandbox on random Web pages to eval= uate its usefulness. The Wikipedia page on this topic seems a bit pessimistic about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language#HTML It confirms my experience (on both sides: writing HTML by hand, or parsing = HTML for Wasabee) - from the very beginning, browsers are adapted to the lo= west possible HTML code quality. The market forces would eliminate a browse= r that expects "correct" HTML. For XHTML, it's even simpler: you can probab= ly count on one hand the XHTML web sites. Even features meant to be not sup= ported anymore in the HTML standard, like frames or the tag, are of = course supported by major browsers. Once it's there, it's forever... > (3) Will the scripting engine be JavaScript, or more general? (i.e. allow= ing an "AdaScript".) I'd start with a JavaScript subset, growing step by step. > (4) Are you the only contributor? At the moment it seems so. > and Are you looking for others to contribute? Not actively, but contributions are always welcome. > (5) WRT scripting/VMs, what do you think of SPARK? No opinion - someone ? G.