Re: [Themis-dev] CSS renderer in trunk

[Mark H. <ma...@fi...>]

>On 1/28/2011 2:37 PM, Mark Hellegers wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> as you may have noticed, I committed a new renderer in trunk yesterday.
>> It uses css to determine what to render. It currently can only render
>> using the css file provided by Themis and the parts of css that it
>> understands are also quite limited, but you can see what it can do as
>> posted on our website (themis.sf.net) by Raymond on the 16th.
>>
>> I think the code is still fairly simple although it needs some cleanup
>and
>> some bugfixing (especially memory leaks).
>> I am going to keep working on it, but if anyone wants to improve it,
>they
>> are welcome.
>>
>> Some things to keep in mind:
>> I haven't tested it under Haiku, but under BeOS R5 it works fine.
>> The renderer is not built by default. You have to execute 'make
>cssraddon'
>> and remove the standard Themis renderer to see any results.
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>Thanks Mark! I compiled it earlier and tried to get it running under
>Haiku, but I kept getting a crash on application start up. The cause of
>that might be an unrelated change I reverted in common/BasePrefsEntry.hpp
>(or something like that) that I had lingering for some reason. I vaguely
>recall the change I had made stopped some crashing, and that's probably
>what's causing it now. That said, I have another copy of that file in its
>"Haiku-fixed" state in a VirtualBox VM, and will 1) try to isolate that
>fix for Haiku builds only, 2) get that in the repository, and 3) check
>out the new renderer.
>
>I think we may as well remove the old renderer from the standard build
>since it's only occasionally functional anyway. What do you think?

Hi Raymond,

if you can get it to work on Haiku, it's ok by me.

Mark

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