CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2016/M1653 Implement HTML form validation

Implementation of HTML5 form validation in servo

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Servo is a modern high performance web browser written in the rust programming language.

Introduction

The HTML5is a markup language used for displaying content on the World Wide Web

HTML5 defines set of specification which users needs to follow to make web pages HTML5 compliant. HTML 5 defines a mechanism by which contents of forms can be validated before user is allowed to submit them. Servo currently implements support for few of the form elements. This project is intended to implement client-side validations for these elements and extend the existing form element subset to include additional form elements that will support client side validation.

Servo

Servo is an open source prototype web browser layout engine that is being developed by Mozilla Research. It is written in Rust language. Current browser engines are mostly based on single-threaded model. Although there are some tasks (as decompressing images) which can be done on separate processor cores but most of the work (like interpreting HTML and laying out pages) is single-threaded. Motivation behind servo is to create a highly parallel environment, where different components (such as rendering, layout, HTML parsing, image decoding, etc.) can be handled by fine-grained, isolated tasks.

Rust

Rust is an open source systems programming language developed by Mozilla Research. Rust is designed to provide the same level of performance and power as C++, but without the risk of bugs and security flaws, and also with built-in mechanisms for exploiting multi-core processors.