Line Mode Browser Internals
The Line Mode Browser is built directly on
top of the the W3C Reference Library and is
mainly a test tool for the Library.
As the W3C Reference Library is a generic,
platform independent library, the Line Mode Browser must contain the
presentation specific code. The few extra modules this includes are:
- HTBrowse
- This module is the main module in the browser and it is the doing
the shell command analysis, prompts and command line handling etc.
- GridText
- The
GridText
module is the graphic
object. This assumes fixed-width characters (hence "grid"). This
module has the basic functions of a hypertext object plus some extra
interface to the HTBrowse module.
- GridStyle
- The
GridStyle
module is the Line Mode Browser
management of static stylesheets.
- DefaultStyles.c
- This module is the default set of formats for displaying text in
each style.
Tim BL, and Henrik Frystyk,
libwww@w3.org, November 1995