oeh! let me flame! (it's been sooooo looong)
Not speaking for robert (ofcourse) but I left dynapi because of a few
reasons:
1) DynAPI is bloated, to many people want to many different things in it (I
am also to blame)..something that just won't work.. compare any of the DHTML
code using DynAPI with any code you can do using a lightweight api, or just
fresh code.. 2 things: speed and size, the most important things to
webenvironments
2) DOM only is what I want.. and to many people would complain about that,
because nobody has the guts to leave NS4 behind, or any other browser that
allmost nobody uses (looking at percentages).. flame away on this one, again
and again..
3) developers, I know this list has a large group of contributors, but
mainly contributing to the mailinglists and eachother (great btw, and part
of opensource) but not many contribute to the project code.. seeing Robert
is now leaving aswell, in my opinion only Jordi is left..and I'm allmost
thinking he'd rather uses his own custom code instead of adding ideas for
others to the DynAPI.. I recently looked at the manual on the
dynapi.sourceforge.net pages (spare time, etc) .. looking at the list of
contributors.. big list..most names are unknown (to me that is).. a good
reason for someone that CAN do the code to create his/her own
library....waiting for Jordi to start his library (or maybe already done,
and then waiting for its release :)
4) DynAPI2 is a cool project, learned alot (mostly from Dan, so thanks Dan!
:).. but with every project, you learn stuff and learn how to do things
better.. starting your own library then is just a cool thing to do,
especially in your own freetime.. I also think having another DOM only lib
out there is a very good thing, people now have the choice for DOMLib,
DomAPI, jsDOM, maybe more.. see the pattern? DOM! that's where the web
should go, and having so many options open for people to start using it, it
should advance the web experience towards better, faster, smaller webbased
code.
> trying to implement it within the DynAPI he decides to venture off by
> himself. That is defeating the point of open source.
is it? I think it's the idea of opensource: see code, help with code, learn
code, branch to new code, free, opensourced, cirle starts again.
..well, you wanted flaming, this was it :)
Pascal Bestebroer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software ontwikkelaar
Oberon Informatiesystemen b.v.
http://www.oibv.com
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