Hi, Atze Dijkstra wrote: [skip]

but to provide a proper interface to XML/HTML DOM (see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_web_browser), or a GUI abstraction around it (perhaps a subset of wxHaskell?) will take more work & time. I hope this can be done as part of a studentproject, or maybe picked up during a Hackathon.

I think a big portion of this task might be done using this package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/webidl or its newer (not published on Hackage, but recommended) version split into two (you need both): http://code.haskell.org/yc2js/webidl/ -- lexer (FFI based), parser, and a test program.* http://code.haskell.org/yc2js/webidlsyn/ -- just AST and pretty-printer I must admit: I haven't touched this project for more than a year, and have little plans to do so: it is up for grabs by anyone interested. But if it can parse something like this: http://es-operating-system.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/include/w3c/html5.idl or http://es-operating-system.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/include/w3c/svg.idl it's likely still intact. Back in those days it could. A WebIDL converter helps derive type signatures for DOM methods and attributes (just like HSFFIG does this for C function prototypes). Have fun ;) and don't hesitate to ask questions. PS I'm glad that the idea lives on. With more GHC flrxibility on backends than it was in 2006-2007, and with faster Javascript engines in browsers, this can get a second life... ------------------------------ * the whole repo has to be downloaded: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/yc2js/ -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web