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It IS trivial. Now, I'll admit that there is an enormously complex process required to render modern html and css properly. But there are several engines that
by mcherm 7y ago
It IS trivial.
Now, I'll admit that there is an enormously complex process required to render modern html and css properly. But there are several engines that do this rendering and are available as open source. So it is easy to render web pages... use one of these engines.
- danso 7y agoWhat examples are you thinking? Are you talking about Chrome and Webkit, and that these would be trivial for a Kindle to adopt? The Kindle Oasis is the highest spec Kindle, and it tops out at 512MB RAM. I see that Firefox 70.0 has 512MB for its minimum requirements, but how performant is that kind of computer on today's web?
- notus 7y agoWith the example of Firefox, you wouldn't use Firefox, you would use Gecko which is going to have much lower requirements. There are usually ports for embedded systems that have even less requirements as well (WPE for Webkit for example)
- falcolas 7y agoSo, just to render a mobi file, a HTML / CSS (2.0) renderer is needed. So, minus JavaScript and some particularly fancy CSS, the Kindle is already most of the way there.