[Fwd: Regarding the Review of the project proposal on page reader]

From: Vishal <balaji(a)iitk.ac.in&gt; To: John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org&gt; Subject: Regarding the Review of the project proposal on page reader Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:59:43 +0530 Hi, I have submitted a project proposal for page reader section of Netsurf . You have gone through it already .And you have given some remark on that proposal . So I am mailing you this in that context. I don't know the normal protocol , but I will change my proposal according to your suggestions and I am mailing you , the changes I am doing in it to let you know my modifications. First thing , was concrete milestones or the basic idea to implement the page reader . Browser is a tool to open the raw data sent by the servers hosting the urls , which we try to open . Netsurf supports HTML 4.0 and CSS 2.1 , that means data can have coded using HTML and CSS . Netsurf tries to interpret this code and lays out the interface in human readable/understandable form . So I will have to work on the way how Netsurf is interpreting HTML coding .I have to pass the required data to espeak , which is interpreted by the Netsurf from the raw code i.e. How Netsurf has decided what is the heading , which are the special links and tags and what is the cursor is pointing at. It is all there in the Netsurf coding , I will have to augment it so that this information is passed on to some other processing body , which happens to be espeak in our case. Then I will have to work on designing a front end for espeak to access and process the data passed on to it to work simultaneously with netsurf . This project has three parts : 1) understanding the Netsurf build up 2) augmenting or modifying the code to pass on some data to another body. 3) Making espeak to actually process this data . I have already worked in C in some of my course projects like : 1) I am designing a compiler(with limited features) for pascal using C programming language. 2) I have worked on Nachos (a small working OS model ), to implement additional features in it , like page tables , synchronization etc. Nachos is built using C++ , It needed a lot of core programming and data structure building . Though it was not purely C , but I think it was very similar experience . I am attaching some of my project work on pascal compiler and its not complete till now but It will be complete in next 1 and a half week . If you want to run it , just hit make in the folder. Parser.y contains the actual grammar and core work for the compiler. I am not sending nachos , because its a lot of files , only some of which I have edited. If you want to know , whether I am able to understand the Netsurf source code , I want to say that I have built the netsurf from its source code and I am analyzing the code , so that I will be able to understand how actually Netsurf is able to interpret the data. Actually the code I am sending to you is under construction , so it may look very messy , I am sorry for that . If you want any other evidence or you want to throw any challenge problem , I will be more than happy to accept it. Right now, I am observing , you people are busy fixing some of the GTK bugs , earlier being carried out by Netsurf . I was busy until now, I will try to further understand the layout engine of the Netsurf , and see if I am of any help. Regards , Vishal B Annapurve CSE Third year Under Graduate Indian Institute of Technology , Kanpur P.S . Your notification/review on my project proposal was : Thank you for your application. We would like to see more detail about how you intend to implement the page reader, along with more concrete milestones. Additionally, we would like to see some evidence of your ability to write C.