[platform-dev] 2.2 plan : HTML rendering

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I read the proposed items for 2.2, which
include rendering of HTML.  Perhaps there is some existing code already
on Eclipse.org that can be leveraged to render HTML.

The org.eclipse.draw2d.text package
served as the foundation for the HTML editor that ships with WSAD.  The
package itself includes a set of figures (lightweight painters) and layout
managers optimized for rendering wysiwyg text documents, such as HTML.
 The lead developer of the team that added HTML capabilities is a
committer (with limited availability ;-) ) on the GEF team.

There would be multiple benefits to
using draw2d:
1) It has been before, and the foundation
available today.
2) It is very fast and lightweight.
3) It is possible to take such rendering
capibilities and reuse them in an editor as opposed to a viewer.  This
has been done before also.

Does anyone know the current "plan
of attack" for this 2.2 line item?  Including whether the goal
is an HTML subset?

-Randy