Re: [Themis-dev] Status of Themis

[<Ar...@co...>]

Correction... it's Axel... as in Axel Dorfler, not Alex, who wrote the CSS parser.

I sent an email to Axel to see if he still has interest in stuff like this, but with his work on Haiku it's probably not likely. :)
Also, I contacted Remi, but if someone knows a better way to contact him, feel free.  He did some UI stuff here:
http://www.beosfrance.com/muckups/Net++/
not coding, but more design ideas...  might be useful to have some more ideas to consider

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From: Ar...@co...
> > I will start working on the html parser again to finally finish the
> > rewrite, but of course a lot of other work needs to be done.
> > Who else wants to work on Themis and on which part do you want to work ?
> > Raymond, do you have the time ?
> > I think someone volunteered for the GUI ? ;)
> > I don't think we want to have any timelines about when something should be
> > finished, although more progress than the last two years should be the
> > minimum. :)
> 
> Well, I can give some of the info I know...
> 
> Who's involved:
> Mark (planning to later on)
> Raymond (planning to later on)
> Michael (planning to?)
> Fredrik (working now - UI)
> Maxwell (working now - CSS)
> 
> Who's who:
> Mark - longtime Themis developer
> Raymond - started the Themis project?
> Michael - longtime Themis developer -- UI and other areas
> Fredrik - ?
> Maxwell - new to the project; has written a CSS parser on his own :)
> 
> Past contributers:
> Alex - contributed the CSS parser we have now
> 
> Other people:
> Cyril - working on a separate project called UZI - I asked him to make any notes 
> about problems he noticed in Themis (so we can consider all views) since he 
> evaluated Themis before working on his own browser
> 
> Status of components:
> 
> HTML parser -- Marks wants to do a rewrite -- do you need help??
> CSS parser -- We have a handwritten CSS parser from Alex, but for the future, a 
> decision must be made; Maxwell is currently evaluating parsers to see what the 
> best options might be before making any suggestions in the mailing list
> EMCAScript + DOM -- there's rough Spidermonkey support?  I was hoping to find 
> someone to do some work on EMCAScript -- perhaps even using the SEE EMCAScript 
> Interpreter or the LLVM Compiler.
> UI -- Fredrik -- need help?
> 
> SVG -- nothing now; no plans this early on
> MathML -- nothing; no plans this early on
> 
> XML?
> XSLT?
> XPATH?
> XForms?
> etc....???  what other areas can we add that will be needed in the future?
> 
> Additional questions:
> Both Mark and Raymond have indicated that many areas needed rewrites or that 
> they wanted to do rewrites on certain areas.  I think this information would be 
> very, very useful to know about.  Is it possible to get a complete list of every 
> one of those items? :)  which parts have a good basis and just need to be 
> polished little, which areas need a rewrite, whether you want to do the rewrite 
> yourself or if someone else needs to be brought in, and so on....  Perhaps this 
> info would be helpful?
> 
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