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Martin Jones wrote:
> 
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
> >
> > [ ViewML announcement snipped ]
> > 
> > Argh. You just tied yourself to code that will have no development
> > whatsoever in the future. Why not use KDE2's widget? It's much better.
> 
> As the primary developer of the old khtmlw I have watched with
> some bewilderment as developers chose to port this instead of
> the new widget.  The old widget cannot be easily adapted to
> support CSS, DOM, XML (or other buzz words).  Its javascript
> support is hopeless and will probably remain that way.  It
> knows nothing of java.  No one seems interested in adding any
> of this functionality either.

I don't know about anyone else, but viewml is *exactly* what I'm
looking for. From what I hear within the "embedded systems"
community HTML 3.2 seems to be considered the last revision of
the standard that can be rendered reasonably on a small screen,
and doesn't require a massive parser. A page like, say, this one:

http://linuxtoday.com/indexpalm.php3

is actually readable on a small screen, and all I need to read
it is HTML 3.2.

> khtmlw is smaller than KDE 2's widget, but the number of sites
> that khtmlw copes with is decreasing and this will only get worse.
> 
> The new widget supports most current technologies and is
> actively maintained.  It is nearing production quality now and
> handles far more sites than khtmlw.  A lot more people will
> benefit from additional developers working on the KDE 2 widget
> too.

I think that we may see an increase in HTML 3.2 pages as the
embedded browser market increases, with a renewed interest in
these older browsers. If the new widget is really that much
better, I'd prefer to see a version has CSS, XML, etc stripped
out.

Jeff
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