Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: IBrowse 2.3 released, IOSPIRIT new distributor  (Read 6814 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline downix

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2003
  • Posts: 1587
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.applemonthly.com
Re: CSS??
« on: January 29, 2003, 04:30:00 PM »
@Ryu

Simply having developer support won't help if the developers will not supply the necessary components.  

Damien asked an honest question about a long-overdue component that both AOS 4 and MOS needs to be taken seriously.  Even Cell Phones support CSS while no Amiga browser does.  I'm glad to hear that IBrowse is working on the problem, and I hope V's team is as well.
Try blazedmongers new Free Universal Computer kit, available with the GUI toolkit Your Own Universe, the popular IT edition, Extremely Reliable System for embedded work, Enhanced Database development and Wide Area Development system for telecommuting.
 

Offline downix

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2003
  • Posts: 1587
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.applemonthly.com
Re: IBrowse 2.3 released, IOSPIRIT new distributor
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2003, 06:16:57 PM »
Quote
Development of major browsers, like IE and Netscape, is accomplished by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. iBrowse is worked on by how many ??? A lot less! I would be surprised if the number was over 10. Now you tell me how quickly can a program as complicated as a web browser be developed and updated with such a lack of manpower in comparison. It comes as no surprise to me that "current" feature sets, which change _daily_, are not implemented in Amiga browsers. There simply isn't enough manpower to keep up.


And simply put, you don't honetly know what you're talking about.

The whole Mozilla project, with all of it's forked-off browsers, is a grand total of just over 100 people.  For active developers, you can count them in a bakers dozen.  

And that's for Mozilla, one of the most complex pieces of code out there, as I'm sure anyone will agree.  It is not one web browser, but at least 6.  Plus a mail client and news reader.

Most web development groups number in the half-dozen to a dozen range.  Even Microsoft doesn't dedicate more than 20 people to IE.  

So, even Voyager with only 2 active coders, does stand a chance to keep up with these teams.
Try blazedmongers new Free Universal Computer kit, available with the GUI toolkit Your Own Universe, the popular IT edition, Extremely Reliable System for embedded work, Enhanced Database development and Wide Area Development system for telecommuting.