CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2017/M1752 Implement the Microdata API Phase 2

Background

This project is the second phase of the OSS project - M1752 Implement the Microdata API. Please refer to the phase 1 documentation on the Wiki prior to going through this document to gain familiarity with the components involved and build instructions

Introduction

The goal of this project is to use the microdata compatibility we built in the previous phase, to allow a front end - servoshell, to detect and act on the presence of microdata. Below is a sample mockup of servoshell that summarizes what we want to achieve in this project

Servoshell

Servoshell is a work-in-progress front-end for the servo browser engine.

Scope

The scope of this project is to implement algorithms to interpret JSON and vCard data present in the form of microdata, in a webpage and to notify the embedder, in this case servoshell. This would allow the embedder to display this data as required.

The following steps are to be performed -

1) Implement and test the algorithm to extract JSON from microdata. Specification Details

2) Implement and test the algorithm to extract a vCard from microdata. Specification Details

3) Use these algorithms to extract metadata from each page after it finishes loading and send it to the compositor

4) Notify any embedding code of the newly-extracted metadata

5) Modify the servoshell embedding to use the new notification and create a vCard file if available