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user877329
user877329

Reputation: 6220

Simple HTML layout engine?

I need a HTML layout engine that supports the following:

The purpose is to display program documentation in a nice browsable format. Therefore I do not need any CSS formating support or JavaScript. Does anyone know a good starting point. Gecko seems to be much. Should I try to build a custom one?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1195

Answers (1)

Adriano Repetti
Adriano Repetti

Reputation: 67118

Should I try to build a custom one?

No, absolutely you shouldn't try to build a custom one! There are enough HTML rendering engines out there and you do not need to reinvent the wheel again (even if I suppose it could be pretty funny).

Do you have a target operating system? If you're on Windows you can use Microsoft's Web Browser Control to display your pages.

If you're under Linux you have even more options. AFAIK Konqueror can be used for this (and do not forget you can use one of the tons of widget libraries for HTML UI). Take a look to this list just as starting point.

The purpose is to display program documentation in a nice browsable format.

Side question: can't you simply show your documentation inside user's default browser? It's pretty common for many programs to provide even on-line documentation inside the browser.

Upvotes: 2

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