[Haskell-cafe] Re: Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

[Achim Schneider]

Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > = A high-performance HTML combinator library using Data.Text =
> > >
> >
> > May I add
> >
> > * Conceptual compatiblity with the W3C DOM. The library shoud be
> >  designed in a way that allows a thin / automatically generated
> >  wrapping layer to support DOM operations, where applicable.
> >
> > ?
> >
> > It is a "keep that in mind", not absolute, requirement.
> >
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand what you have in mind. Do you mean
> that given a value of type Html you can e.g. query by ID to find
> children?
> 
The overall idea is that if we chose to write a browser in Haskell,
which will come with an ECMAscript implementation in Haskell, it'd be
nice if that HTML library could be developed into something that can be
used as internal DOM representation (and messed with from the
ECMAscript side) without breaking the already existing Haskell
interface.

Also, web developers that know DOM inside out shouldn't be alienated by
Haskell doing things in a way that isn't compatible with their
intuition about how DOM/HTML works.

That is, the library should show potential to be queryable (with some
generics library) with the same semantics as DOM, meaning that the
information necessary to do that should be present.

...I don't mean that the library as implemented for the SoC must
support such queries, but that e.g. a (to be written) library with the
same haskell combinators that spews out an ADT instead of a string
should be.

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