[brailleblaster] Re: Using Browser Technology
- From: Chris von See <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:23:24 -0700
I thought you were going to use the SWT StyledText control to handle text
editing and styling... did you find something that made you change your mind?
Cheers
Chris
On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:19 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Alex,
>
> That would be interesting. I don't think we can use it directly. We can
> already produce braille from html5. What I am working on is displaying
> the documents and editing them.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 07:45:42PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I think that the iDots Project that my company is developing may fit the
>> ticket.
>>
>> I can send you the API docs when I have a chance.
>>
>> iDots is a system for formatting Braille that comes from H?TML5 documents.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex,
>>
>>
>> On 2011-11-02, at 3:21 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> The first part of processing a document in BrailleBlaster is to render
>>> it. For this, an adaptation of browser technology, including css
>>> stylesheets, should be useful. I've looked at various classes that
>>> process html documents, and I've noted that they don't identify an
>>> elemennt by name, for example, Element.name.equals("body") How are
>>> elements identified?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> --
>>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
>
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