Re: library for rendering HTML

Roedy Green wrote: 
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:52:25 GMT, Andrew Thompson
<seemysites@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted :


If it were a matter of rendering valid and well formed HTML, it
would be much simpler, but that is of little use.



Notice how Netscape gives you the option of using its own or IE's
rendering engine. This implies IE is providing an interface to its
engine.  Perhaps that interface will evolve and become something
pluggable available on any platform.

On Windows, IE is available as some flavor of COM object. This has been the case for some time. You may have noticed that some Windows programs use an HTML interface (e.g. some printer drivers, installers, etc.). These are likely using IE under the hood. This lets you apply the MVC approach of servlets and JSPs to native Windows applications, if you so desire.

Ray

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XML is the programmer's duct tape.
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