Re: [Edbrowse-dev] Render

[Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>]

Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com> writes:

> However, the more I think about it the more I think it's potentially not the
> best direction for edbrowse since it places a lot of dependancy on something
> beyond our control, i.e. the stability or otherwise of a js library.

True, they're all moving targets.  On the other hand, we're pretty much
tied to a JS library, so we're going to have to deal with its possible
instability anyway.
To me, the render-in-JS idea does seem pretty slick.

> I also wonder if this'd work in terms of browsing a web page without
> js,

In the non-JS case, the only thing we ever call is render.  We don't
evaluate scripts or call form handlers from the page.

> or one which defines its own render function.

That's easy.  Just call it edbrowse_render, to prevent namespace
conflicts.  Still, we have to make sure that this function can't be
overwritten by some script.

-- Chris