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@@ -17,7 +17,28 @@ utils -- misc. useful functions ________________________________________________________________________________ -HTML and CSS processing and layout +content -- fetching, caching, and converting content + +Each URL is stored in a struct content. This structure contains a union with +fields for each type of data (HTML, CSS, images). + +The content_* functions provide a general interface for handling these +structures. A content of a specified type is created using content_create(), +data is fed to it using content_process_data(), terminated by a call to +content_convert(), which converts the content into a structure which can be +displayed easily. + +The cache stores this converted content. When content is retrieved from the +cache, content_revive() should result in content which can be displayed (eg. by +loading any images and styles required and updating pointers to them). + +Code should not usually use the fetch_* and cache_* functions directly, except +for cache_free(). Instead use fetchcache(), which checks the cache for a url and +fetches, converts, and caches it if not present. + +________________________________________________________________________________ + +render -- HTML and CSS processing and layout This is the process to render an HTML document: |