Re: [Themis-dev] Status of Themis

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

>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?

That's correct. Raymond started it.

>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??

No, I just need quite a bit of time. I'll see if I can merge my changes
into what is currently available, so it is at least off my computer. I do
want the parser to keep working if I commit what I currently have, even
though it is not very good at the moment.

>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.

I don't think it actually does anything, so as far as I know all options
are still on the table here.

>UI -- Fredrik -- need help?
>
>SVG -- nothing now; no plans this early on
>MathML -- nothing; no plans this early on

Nope.

>XML?

Basically supported with the html parser as the parser is actually an sgml
parser.

>XSLT?
>XPATH?
>XForms?
>etc....???  what other areas can we add that will be needed in the
future?

X3D, VRML, SMIL, Java, Flash, etc. ;)

>
>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?

Simple overview (from my part of the code):
html parser: rewrite in progress.
dom: works fine, needs to implement more parts of the spec, but no real
rush.
css-dom: basics are there, but needs serious looking at. All options are
on the table, as far as I am concerned.

Mark

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