[openbeos] Fwd: RE: Re: 3rd Party Opportunities (fwd)

Hi all,

Marcus has asked me to forward this to the list:


Jacob, Marcus wrote (2007-06-21, 10:38:24 [+0200]):
> Hi All,
> 
> the discussions seems not to end, but apparently there are several people 
> who are at least interested to evaluate whether a WebKit port is possible. 
> Maybe it is really a good idea to concentrate these efforts and do it 
> togehter in order not to fragment the few resources we have further.
> 
> And I also like the idea to have a web browser team within Haiku, but not 
> nescessarliy included in the Haiku SVN and so on. I also would volunteer 
> for the job to coordinate this effort after my also almost 4 year absence 
> from the BeOS / Haiku community.
> 
> Btw, I personally have changed my mind a little bit against WebKit due to 
> the fact, that I absolutely don't like the GPL, but there is no other web 
> engine available. I.e. I guess I have to live with that issue.
> 
> I still believe designing a web engine from scratch doesn't make sense due 
> to the arguments discussed several times. I like this idea however ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Rossi
> 
> rossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Jacob [mailto:aurix@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: Jacob, Marcus
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: 3rd Party Opportunities (fwd)
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:52 -0400
> From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
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> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: 3rd Party Opportunities
> 
> On 6/20/07, Fredrik Holmqvist <holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > IMO what is needed for a WebKit-port is a dedicated team-leader who
> > can plan, supervise, and market the project.
> 
> I would volunteer for that, but I'm afraid I'm already spread too thin and 
> I would be worried about not meeting expectations. I do want to at least do 
> some initial research into the port. Maybe that will lead to me feeling 
> confident to take on this role. At this point it is too vague and I've been 
> bitten before in trying to take on overwhelming projects!
> 
> Plus I have another pet project I really want to work on too.
> 
> > Maybe we should even create a
> > browser-team under the Haiku project, which handles not one browser
> > but all efforts. The code doesn't have to be managed in Haiku's svn,
> > just the team and it's status/roadmap.
> 
> Maybe. There definitely needs to be some better organization in this area. 
> I'm sure you Bezilla guys have done some work which would be generally 
> useful for any BeOS browser. Since WebKit is pretty much just the rendering 
> engine, there is plenty of other browser code that will be needed. It would 
> be smart to combine efforts here.
> 
> It might be wishful thinking, but it would be great to have one browser 
> than can use any of the available rendering engines (Gecko and WebKit to 
> start, who knows in the future.)
> 
> Ryan

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