rendering-engine

What is the best HTML Rendering Engine to embed in an application?

At the moment, our application uses the Trident Win32 component, but we want to move away from that for a few reasons, chief among them being our desire to go cross-platform. We're looking at WebKit and Gecko, but I'd love to get some feedback before I make a decision. Here are some of the most important requirements: It should be rel...

Finding rendered HTML element positions using WebKit (or Gecko)

Hi, I would like to get the dimensions (coordinates) for all the HTML elements of a webpage as they are rendered by a browser, that is the positions they are rendered at. For example, (top-left,top-right,bottom-left,bottom-right) Could not find this in lxml. So, is there any library in Python that does this? I had also looked at Mechan...

Best rendering engines for web applications

I am load testing web applications to compare performance of different rendering engines with the goal to rate NDjango view engine (an implementation of the Django Template Language on the .NET platform NDjango ). I compare Django with ASP and ASP.MVC rendering technology. Can you recommend me some other rendering engines that really ...

Is native code considered to be a part of "Layout Engine?"

Is native code of browsers considered to be part of "Layout engine (Rendering engine)" or it is separate from that? In another words, let's say, if we take Mozilla Firefox, does the creation of DOM object is a process of GECKO or not? ...

Is there any difference in major browsers' rendering across operating systems?

I have long believed that the only difference as far as the rendering of major browsers on different platforms is concerned is operating systems' underlying font-rendering technology, everything else relying upon the same libraries included with the browser. As far as my research takes me, this is something that front-end developers eit...

Which video rendering library do you recommend

I am looking for a library which facilitates video streaming and rendering which can be used to apply visual effects s.a. moving pictures and text over a backgound video or merge different video sources. The library should run on Linux. I was thinking about using GStreamer, and wanted to ask the community for an informed opinion. The la...

Override rails render method and replace content

I want to scan my erb files looking for specific custom HTML tags (I have done this part) and then before rendering, intercept these tags and replace their html output. I can't find any info relating to this sort of activity in RAILS. Maybe I am not looking in the right place. ...

Drawing reflexive edges in State Machines

I have to draw a small finite state machine that has some reflexive transitions (meaning the start and the end state of the transition are equal. The problem is that rendering that in Graphviz has ugly results. digraph finite_state_machine { edge [fontsize=11]; S0 -> S0 [label = "td=1\n-/e2"]; S0 -> S1 [label = "td=3 \n-/e3" ]; S...

Internet Explorer generates extra br

I have an issue where Internet Explorer is generating an additional br element that is not in my source. The additional br effects the page's layout and is visible when using the developer tool. I've tried removing all hard returns between the surrounding elements but the additional br persists. Firefox and Chrome do not have this issue....

What is WebKit and how is it related to CSS?

More recently, I have been seeing questions with the tag "webkit". Such questions usually tend to be web-based questions relating to CSS, jQuery, layouts, cross-browers compatibility issues, etc... So what is this "webkit" and how does it relate to CSS? I have also noticed a lot of -webkit-... properties in the source code for various w...

Has anyone figured out a way to render a Reporting Services report at a resolution greater than 96ppi?

I've tried everything I can think of to change the rendering parameters for a report that I need to render as a 300ppi TIFF. Here's one of several attempts using the URL approach. As we went from 96ppi to 300ppi the size of the 8.5 x 11 image increases dramatically, but the resolution remainded at 96ppi. //s0550284/ReportServer?/ERecor...

What do internet browsers use for rendering?

Hi, very quick one, I was always wondering, do internet browsers use for rendering OS API functions to create buttons, render mages and so, or do they render it all on their own? I first thoght that it uses system api, but there are some effects like when screen fades into grey and you see only small window in the middle, you know, thet...

Do you know a good android rendering engine?

Hello. What is a rendering engine? Is there any for Android? Thanks. ...

C++ rendering or game engine for Android.

Hello. I'm developing an Android application and I need to use a render engine to show some objects that I made with Blend. I'm wondering if there is a C++ game engine or render engine to show my models. Is there anyone? Thanks. ...