Well, this is great news! Where though, Raymond, did you forward this message from? Is there another active Dynapi list?
This is some coincidence: Yesterday Robert Rainwater fixed a couple of bugs on the DynAPI site, Today Dan posts upcoming improvements, Jordi pledges continued support, and Pascal makes a caustic joke or two! All one happy family again :o) Richard. > > --- Dan Steinman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm going to be doing a revamp of the core in the near > future. I've > been implementing some custom dynapi2 widgets for a > few clients and > noticing some bottlenecks. The creation system itself > is already fairly > optimized, but the way some of the widgets are > constructed makes them slow > and cumbersome for the browser to render. For > example, completely > avoid Label it a serious bottleneck at the moment. > > Mouse events need to be re-examined and optimized > also. On the > Netscape side of things I know of some very important > changes that can be made > to DynAPI to cure most instability problems. > > DynAPI2 will eventually have the ability to insert the > objects before > load time (as in DynAPI1), it just needs to be fixed > up a bit to allow > this. This should help drawing performance in IE, but > again with some > drawbacks for Netcape 4 - it'll be your choice on > which way to use it. > > If speed is an issue for you, and cross-browser isn't, > but you still > want to build widgets with DynAPI then do as someone > else suggested - > build the main structure as a DynLayer inherited > object with browser > specific contents. There's nothing stopping anyone > from building browser > specific widgets in fact I encourage it and will be > trying to optimize > the DynAPI for this type of widget building. > > I've registered dynapi.net and dynapi.org, though not > quite sure what > I'm going to do with them at this point. I'm thinking > of writing and > building another Dynamic Duo tutorial type site, but > it may be for a fee > because I cannot realistically spend enough time on > such a site again > unless there's some financial backing to it. > > I'm working on some new widgets, and replacement > widgets, and soon will > be starting a full time job where I'll likely be > working with DynAPI on > almost a daily basis. So I can reassure you that > things will be > improving. > > If you want to see some small but neat new things that > will be added to > the dyanpi2 distro in the near future see these: > > A cute integrated debugger: > http://dynapi.net:81/test/debugger/debugger.html > > New graphics package implementing VML for IE (will be > udated for SVG): > http://dynapi.net:81/test/drawapp/drawapp.html > > BTW - don't use http://dynapi.net/ at the moment > because it's running > off a different server (a friend's business site) but > this will change > soon. > > My apologies for being MIA for quite some time now, > but life takes > precedence to DynAPI :) > > Cheers, > Dan Steinman > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev > _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
