On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Pinocchio<cchino...@gmail.com> wrote: > A few months ago lobobrowser.org caught my eye. Its a browser written in > java (hold on... don't kick me off the list... :) ) but the thing I liked > about it was its support for alternative document formats. It supports > JavaFX out of the box and that's definitely a more suckless version of > document rendering / scripting than HTML + Javascript.
You better kick yourself out of this universe. WTF are you smoking? uriel > > I got the idea then that it may not be a bad idea to develop a "suckless > document rendering / scripting application" which supports a document format > the suckless community would actually like. I haven't looked around a lot > but I liked the minimalistic nature of the enlightenment project's evas + > edje library. Evas takes a image-only (no SVG) approach to document > rendering with very good results. > Of course we would have to support HTML + Javascript too but it could be a > plugin similar to the way Adobe PDF and Flash are plugins for the regular > browsers. We could also write tools to convert our document format to HTML + > Javascript on the server side. > > In many ways HTML + Javascript is the "assembly" of the web. Web frontend > developers rarely deal directly with HTML + Javascript. In this case, we > could try and write something simpler and just write tools to directly > render it for suckless browsers or convert it to HTML + Javascript for > non-suckless mortals :) > > -- > Pinocchio > >