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diff --git a/Docs/01-content b/Docs/01-content new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4db4bade8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Docs/01-content @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Fetching, managing, and converting content +========================================== + +The modules in the content directory provide the infrastructure for fetching +data, managing it in memory, and converting it for display. + +Struct Content +-------------- +Each URL is stored in a struct ::content. This structure contains the +content_type and a union with fields for each type of data (HTML, CSS, +images). The content_* functions provide a general interface for handling these +structures. For example, content_redraw() calls html_redraw() or +nsjpeg_redraw(), etc., depending on the type of content. See content.h and +content.c. + +Fetching +-------- +A high-level interface to starting the process of fetching and converting an URL +is provided by the fetchcache functions, which check the memory cache for a url +and fetch, convert, and cache it if not present. See fetchcache.h and +fetchcache.c. + +The fetch module provides a low-level URL fetching interface. See fetch.h and +fetch.c. |