HTML rendering

[James Platt]

I've been looking at HTML rendering in Racket and the Browser package looks interesting, especially since it can execute Racket code from a special HTML tag.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/browser/index.html

The problem is that the rendering it does is too simple. It's about on the level of Lynx and doesn't even render tables. Is there another option that I am missing, like something implementing Gecko or KHTML/Webkit? If not is there much interest in creating such a thing? The idea would be to be able to have a Racket GUI with a component implemented in HTML + CSS.

James

[Jay McCarthy]

As far as I can tell, it has been 16 years since that code has been touched for anything other than reformatting.

https://github.com/racket/drracket/commit/55dc93d01f6a8113dae46302812debddc1e7d2d8

You should not consider it as a real HTML renderer in Racket.

Jay

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[Jens Axel Søgaard]

Den fre. 21. jun. 2019 kl. 21.10 skrev James Platt <j...@biomantica.com>:

I've been looking at HTML rendering in Racket and the Browser package looks interesting, especially since it can execute Racket code from a special HTML tag.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/browser/index.html

The problem is that the rendering it does is too simple.  It's about on the level of Lynx and doesn't even render tables. 

The browser package is mostly historical. It was used to browse documentation inside DrRacket, but at some point

it made more sense to use an external web-browser.
 

Is there another option that I am missing, like something implementing Gecko or KHTML/Webkit?  

If not is there much interest in creating such a thing? The idea would be to be able to have a Racket GUI with a component implemented in HTML + CSS.  

Using Webkit from within DrRacket would indeed be interesting.
Dobson made bindings for webkit at some point - but time flies by.

     https://github.com/endobson/racket-webkit

I know of no newer packages.

/Jens Axel
 

[David Storrs]

Does anyone on the list have the skills to create such a thing, were there sufficient motivation? (coughmoneycough)

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