Hi Sven, Audrius,
Thanks for the advice! I also saw some repainting issues which needs to be
fixed. Is there a copyright assignment I have to submit before I start? In
the meantime I will probably have a lot of code reading to do ;)
David
Fu.
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:06 +0900, fchoong@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi Audrius,
>> Ok! I am trying the CVS version, and it looks like some attributes for
>> the
>> html tags are not working yet. But it is still cool to be able to see it
>> in action ;) Is there a good starting point I can work from?
>> David
>> Fu.
>
> Hi David, This is great. There's all the work you could possibly want in
> the HTML department :) Where to start depends entirely on your own
> preferences, like what you're interested in, what you're familiar with
> and what your personal style of hacking is.
>
> You could start with some small unimplemented thing and fix that, or you
> could grab a bug (there are lots to choose from in the text/HTML
> department) and try to fix it. Or you could just take an arbitrary class
> and just test it, debug it and complete it. (The swing.text and
> swing.text.HTML stuff is still pretty immature code, so chances are
> you'll find something to improve on in most classes.)
>
> But to give a more concrete example, I implemented MinimalHTMLWriter a
> while back, and tested it against the JDK, where it seems to work pretty
> much as it's supposed to. It doesn't work right on Classpath though,
> because of bugs in the AbstractWriter super-class. So you could fix
> that class up, make sure it's all working the way it's supposed to be.
>
> This shouldn't be so bad since you can use the MinimalHTMLWriter to
> test it and be pretty sure that part works. (I can send you a demo
> if you want)
>
> /Sven
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