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) > > > > -- > mailto:m.jacob@xxxxxxxxx > skype:marcus.jacob.de > msn:m.jacob@xxxxxxxxx > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:52 -0400 > From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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