Give that a scratch

I had planned to doing some work on Dillo in order to get up to speed on C. This 'work' was to add Javascript functionality.

On looking into this, it would involve too much theory and work to give any practical benefit. Firstly, I would have to find out a bit more about Javascript, HTML and HTML DOM before I can even think about thinking doing something practical with the Spidermonkey code I got off the web.

Secondly, after that I would have to figure out how to get it working with Dillo. From what I can gather, the dynamic HTML part of Javascript involves a number of instances of the HTML page. For instance, a piece of javascript code in a HTML page may make an instance of the page, the new instance may involve user input which creates an instance and so one. The Dillo engine would have to altered to take account of this. This would be impractical for the Dillo plugin interface in it's current form and would have to involved altering the Dillo main code which would be impractical as far as I can tell, Dillo is still in beta stage and needs a lot of work. Trying to add Dynamic HTML support would slow it right down.

As I mentioned, I had looked into this as a short-term measure. It may not be as hard as I'm making it out to be but the question is do I really want to devote a large portion of my time to this? While it would be great to be part of project and contribute to taking it forward, it does not motivate me to do something which is duplication of something that has already been done by other projects.

There is also another reason why I don't want to persue this further which I'll mention in next post.