Robinson-C

C implementation of Matt Brubeck's "Robinson" HTML engine.

It uses this bitmap library to render graphics.

References

1. Let's build a browser engine!, Matt Brubeck
2. From the W3C specification for CSS:

• Visual formatting model
• Box model
• Syntax and basic data types

3. How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers, by Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish
4. Understanding the CSS box model for inline elements, Patrick Brosset, Mozilla
5. Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?, Mozilla

Other implementations:

1. WebWhir
2. https://github.com/gooofy/robinson is an implementation in Python that does support text and inline elements (GPL).

TODO

Organised according to priority and (apparent) ease of implementation

• Text rendering, obviously.
• Inline elements. To implement, start at the Normal Flow section of (2).
  • Lines that do not fit in the width of a container should be split into multiple inline blocks.
  • Note what happens to the margin and especially the border.
• Absolute positioning
• Collapsing Margins
• Image support - might depend on the framework I use to render it
• style attribute, and <style/> tag
• More sophisticated CSS parsing as per Syntax and basic data types

License

MIT License. See the file LICENSE for details.