Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi Sam, > Hey Ray, maybe one of the mobsters could give us a little progress > report. We don't hear much here about what you guys might be doing. > Glad to hear at least that you are still hard at it. How big has > the mob gotten? The mob is still too small, but we are *very* hard at it. Old news is that Michal (That's "Dr. Tyc" to you < G G G > is completely rewriting the bitmap handling. Joe is working his cookie size and online timer improvements into the cleaned code, and I'm experimenting with a total re-working of the way Arachne configures herself (it seems to be going well). If my master plan works out, we'll eventually have full error checking during startup, so that Arachne will tell you what the problem is instead of just stopping if some setting or other is incorrect. Glenn has '1.77' in the works. > Incidently, it doesn't surprise me that you are finding "errors" > and sloppiness. Afterall, MP was mostly self trained in programming > and he was hyper active, releasing version after version with very > little testing. He just kept going and going, adding new features > and improvements rapidly. > But without that sort of impulsivity on his part there never would > have been an Arachne. There were other DOS browser projects, some > careful and well organized, but they never amounted to very much, > did they? > MP got the job done. Yes, I agree on all points; there is no one 'right' personality -- each sort of person has things that he/she will excel at, and things in which he/she fails. If a group of people can agree to let each one do what they are best at, the resulting synergy can produce excellent results. Critisisms notwithstanding, I hold MP in the highest regard. -- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.73 GPL/B3 :The best in freeware! Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --