Re: [Themis-dev] Status of Themis

[Fredrik <fr...@mo...>]

othern than these people are there other that at'nt on the about list?

Who's involved:
Mark (planning to later on)
Raymond (planning to later on)
Michael (planning to?)
Fredrik (working now - UI)
Maxwell (working now - CSS)

What did these people do?
Linus Almstrom
Olivier Milla

I want to update the about box with som stuff :)
today we have in the about box:
Themis framework
SSL

missing are:
XML/HTML Parser    - Mark
CSS                - Axel/Maxwell?
JavaScript         - ?
DOM                - ?

Have I missed an area /or Person or have one to many?

About coding style I think that we should follow Haiku?

//Fredrik

>>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
>
> --
> Spangalese for beginnners:
> `Lunue d'nent.'
> `Your axe is swift Stewardess.'
>
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