I've been busy with libcroco since my last diary. The CSSOM implementation is going forward. The parser can already parse trivial stylesheets at a SAC level and build a stylesheet abstract tree at the CSSOM level. Still my implementation of CSSOM doesn't support @media and @import rules yet.
I should find the time to dive again into the MlView edition code a bit. This css2 support stuff just sucks all my time <grin/>
Although my SAC implementation is far from being complete, I think that building a cssom on top of it will help me debug it. The most interesting part of the hacking will certainly be the implementation of the "css2 selectors interpretation". Hmmh.
The redhat guys look really great under their red hats :) I am impressed by the pool of competences this company has been able to build around Free Software.
I hope the young tech guys of today will have the opportunity, the willpower, and the vision to start companies like redhat in the future. I don't see any other way to give us (computer geeks) a chance to stay around free code and still be able to put food on our tables.
Went forward on the css2 parsing library front. I think I should setup a little web site for it. The project itself is hosted on savannah at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libcroco. I still have a lot of code to write to have a fully standard compliant css2 parser but I am on my way. MlView definitely needs this css2 support and I am far from having the needed css2 infrastructure.
Fortunately, strider joined the MlView project. He is doing very well on the gtk2 port front. I think we are going to do some great hacks together.
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A lot of health problems arose in my family recently. I am quite anxious about how we'll deal with all this.
Cleaned up the autotools related scripts of the MlView project.
Hacking on the standalone css2 parser is also on going. It's still not useable at all but the different pieces of the puzzle are getting in place.
Life
This great week end may explain why my hacks went so slowly.
Life
In the same time I have not hacked a lot on MlView itself.
life
I must also find the time to work on my new css parsing library.
Some other fixes. 0.0.3rc2 is coming soon.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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