Tarantula 🕷

This (experimental) project hopes be a (somewhat) faithful implementation of the WHATWG Document Object Model in Rust.

The purpose is to see how possible it is to wrangle the DOM out of Javascript and squeeze it into a Rust API, possibly for GUI clients, who knows.

Because of the differences in the languages, The API will diverge from the specification in situations where there is no feasible implementation. A list of all concessions and compromises so far can be seen here.

Theoretical Usage

use tarantula::prelude::*;

fn main() {
   if let Err(e) = Window::new("index.html", context, None).run() {
      eprintln!("{}", e);
      std::process::exit(1);
   };
}

fn context(mut window: Window) -> DOMResult {
   let mut document = window.document();

   let mut element = document.create_element("div");
   element.set_inner_text("Hello, there!");
   element.style_mut().set_property("color", "green");

   document.body_mut().append(&mut element)?;
   Ok(())
}