[dillo-patches] Re: What hope for Dillo by now? Thoughts please?
- From: Madis Janson <madis@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Dillo-Patches <dillo-patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:06:38 +0300 (EEST)
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote:
Hi,
I'm *really* wary of starting this thread (if there is a thread to start),
because I feel maybe it'd be opening Pandora's box in all sorts of ways, and
I've got way too many other things to deal with ATM. But I'm feeling really
like I can't just let this slip, because it seems to me as though Dillo is
just going to completely flatline, and this might be the best time to do
something about it.
Someone has to fork it, if we want to do any meaningful development. Which
is a bit sorry, because some of the code is quite complex and there is
no doubt that the original authors understand it best.
One interesting patch-set currently available:
http://teki.jpn.ph/pc/software/index-e.shtml
(I don't know whether the maintainer is in this list)
Even though I've been using Firefox for some years now almost exclusively
I still mostly hate the thing, so when I was reminded recently of Dillo
(which I've otherwise just been using as a convenient command-line viewer
for HTML docs since I got Firefox), I got looking into what the situation
is with that ATM, and reminding myself of what happened years ago with the
main mailing list (ouch).
Now I'm wondering amongst other things (because there's little point me
bothering saying much otherwise!), whether this list is still working
(I see that the webpage for it is at least still there, and the archives
work), and whether anybody still reads it?
It is working.
My impression is that most of the other people who subscribed here, like
me, *didn't* stop bothering with Dillo because they didn't care about it
(maybe even the people who felt deeply aggrieved about the situation), but
because they didn't feel that there was much hope, no reason to waste time
trying.
I was long time hopeing that Jorge gets his fltk port out. Appearantly it
have been postponed to undetermined future. Now I'm mostly using Opera...
And maybe like me they never bothered to unsubscribe from *this* list even
still, because the lack of traffic meant that it made no difference anyway,
in which case maybe some will see this message? ;) On top of that, there's
even a few people out there *still* doing 3rd-party work on Dillo AFAICT,
and others still on the main list wanting to be able to contribute. Maybe
some of them stayed subscribed "just in case".
So yeah, I'd be curious to hear if I get any response here, just to see
the situation with how people feel (and maybe what they make of the current
situation re Jorge+Sebastian's mystery code), and maybe more importantly,
who can even *hear* this in the first place.
The future for this exceptional little program seems bleak to me, but
not necessarily hopeless, and it'd be nice to be able to exchange a few
thoughts with anyone out there. Anyone?
It was best browser on an old 200MHz pentium ;)
CSS and unicode support are badly needed nowadays.
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