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RE: HTML-Rendering engine written in Java?


From: Stephane Meslin-Weber
Subject: RE: HTML-Rendering engine written in Java?
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:07:09 +0100

> Subsequent to the XOE 1.0 release, Transvirtual ported it to run on
any
> JVM, but they never released that code (Transvirtual is no longer in
> business).

Just out of curiousity, what's the status of that unreleased code? Has
the copyright/IP rights for that code been released to the developers or
is it in the hands of the creditors?

> It did a pretty spiffy job of rendering a lot of difficult web pages,
> and it was reasonably fast too.

Was it in generic Java 1.1 or were there native portions to speed things
up?

> I'd love to see somebody take this orphaned code and clean it up and
> make it into a standalone project.  A lot of the DOM, layout/rendering
> and parsing code is probably worth preserving, as it took a lot of
work
> to get that to do a reasonably decent job.

I agree, this would be really useful.

Stephane






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