[openbeos] Re: the browser ...
- From: "Phillip Craig" <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 21:03:29 -0000
Think I've only posted once with the list of mirrors but anyway here is my
view as I'm not exactly a great programmer so I feel I'm more of an ideas
man :)
>
> Now with my ranting completed, let me get to my point. I am officially
> voting for BeZilla to be the OBOS browser of choice. This is not just
> because I am working on it, either. First, with BeZilla, we as a team,
> not only have ourselves, but hundreds if not more, developers working
> on the project. Luckily, we only have to worry about one part of that
> project, and that is making it run under BeOS. Well, for the most
> part, that's taken care of. Now, we just need to make it better.
> Second, Mozilla gets a lot of press,. We could ride their coat tails,
> so to speak, for a little publicity ourselves. Third, it is one of the
> most standard compliant browsers on the market. Forth, it is
> embedable, so we could take just the browser part, and make a smaller
> application. Fifth, a lot of the work is already done. Sixth, it
> brings familiarity to users who know nothing about OBOS, or BeOS for
> that matter. Plus probably some other good reasons, I can't think of
> right now.
I think this is a big point. If it is decided that OBeOS comes with a
browser already built in which can do what most browsers can do it should
really be decided now which one. The developers don't have to come from the
current OBeOS project either. As you said you had a few developers before
BeOS went pear shaped. If it was seen that a new OS was being created for
this browser to run on it may encourge these developers to return to the
orignal task of creating BeZilla
>
> IBM choose Mozilla for it's primary browser for OS/2, probably for a
> lot of the same reasons I just mentioned. It makes sense. Why start
> something new, that would take a long time to develop, and might not
> ever get to the level of what Mozilla could bring us.
BeZilla I feel is the furthest on in the way of a complete browser I think.
Yes it's not the quickest but that can come with time
>
> Well, these are just my thoughts. If the majority of the members of
> OBOS decide that Mozilla is not the browser they want, then I would
> surely help with what ever was decided upon. I have no loving ties to
> mozilla. It's just so close, that to me, it seemed the obvious choice.
>
The question I want to ask is if it was decided that BeZilla was not the way
to go and another browser was decided to be the main browser (if this was to
happen of course) would you move over to help develope that browser. I only
ask because whats the point of going the way of a new browser if developers
of browsers aren't willing to help may as well stay the way things are.
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