Timberwolf at Amiwest?

[eliyahu]

I watched the Amiwest streams, listening intently for any discussion on Timberwolf. I didn't hear any mention of it.

Was it discussed? Was any update or news provided?

if there was, i didn't hear it.

the good news is that odyssey works so well for so many, that the need we had for timberwolf is no longer as strong (at least IMO). that said i know at least one developer who has access to the source code and wants to start working on it again once other amiga-related work calms down a bit.

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

@ddniUK

number6 just pointed me to where ssolie was talking about it on AWN (link):

Would further funding speed up the process of bringing Timberwolf up to date and ready for release?

Not  at this moment. What I need to do is put together a team to work on it  and I just haven't done that yet. My real life paying job has priority  in these cases...

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

I'm curious, if Timberwolf ironed out it's current bugs and optimised the code so it would be just as stable and fast as OWB: which of the two web browsers would objetively be the better one?

i'd probably argue odyssey, frankly. timberwolf is based on a rather old firefox code base. besides odyssey has an amiga GUI whereas timberwolf doesn't.

that said timberwolf has much better bookmark management, compatibility with firefox addons, is more configurable, etc. so i guess it depends on what you want. for me, if performance/stability were the same, i'd probably stick with odyssey since i prefer having an amiga GUI. but others may feel differently and prefer the additional features timberwolf/firefox offers.

-- eliyahu