Michael wrote:
>2) Open source: I am sort of evaluationg advantages of open-source
>development with Bernie. He is studying Arachne open source code now. Ask
>him, if it easy for him to fix bugs, etc.
Depends on the bug of course (fixing the FORM bug Eko report on didn't take
many minutes) - and I've managed to find all the ones I've created so far ;-)
(Having Arachne extremly blue was however rather cool).
Finding unknown bugs (for instance hit 'F' a few times on a page with
frames and your mouse will disappear until you move it over a link or
button) is of course harder.
However Michael I wonder about the state of the code I have, first the text
overwrites the URL field at times (as you already know), and the SELECT
size is somehow twice what it should be. Ah well, I will not release any
binary anyway (so don't leave for India just yet <g>).
Adding features were not hard, but then I've only added a few things so far
(except the things I've already mailed the list about):
1. Creates better .asf files when you hit 'Q' to automatically download all
links
2. External screensaver as an option (it was a long time ago that this came
up)
>Currently, he specialized on
>small speed optimizations - unfortunately not in the mission-critical
>parts of code :(
Since I'm still trying to learn what code does what I don't know what code
is often used (besides I optomize as I go along reading). Some functions
(scrollbar and status message) are used often (but not "mission critical"
as you say) and these could be a little optimized. I don't hope you expect
me to rewrite the HTML rendering engine so it's much faster (very little
was possible).
"Best" I've done so far in general speed of Arachne was to slow it down
(although I still don't understand how it could be slower), anyway I
changed that part back to an earlier change I had made (that's atleast not
slower than the original <g>).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
