Three months into
the new year have shown an increased interested in XML based Java GUI
generation. No matter if you are an Thinlet, SwiXml, Luxor, etc. user, this is
good news, confirming that we are in fact on the right
track.
Swixml for instance
has been downloaded almost 700 times already and we can expect to see some
real world applications using it, to be released soon. Interestingly enough,
about 20% of the sixml.org visits originate in Europe. (Germany, Italy and
Finland are responsible for half of that)
Theodore, the
Thinlet Editor stronger than ever.
"Theo" was launched
(Web-started) 7,377 times during Q1. 2003
What's
ahead?
With more developers
joining Robert in his efforts to push Thinlet forward, we can expect Thinlets to
gain even more momentum. While we here at Carlsbad Cubes carefully
watch Thinlets being high jacked, we started looking very seriously
into supporting the upcoming Thinlet 1.0 release and started coding on the next
Theodore version supporting it. However, like mentioned here before, we do not feel
comfortable supporting any not-labeled Thinlet CVS version available on
SourceForge.
What else
...
Theodore's Freeware
and AP Editions will go separate ways. So far there were hardly any
difference noticeable between the two close browsers, this is going to change
however.
To be honest the
sale of Theodore-AP did not go as well as anticipated and while this project was
never designed to make us money - it is budgeted to cover the cost for web
hosting and related expenses. Today, Theodore is not only
used by hobbyists and open-source programmers - the heaviest user for
instance is a France government site, which starts Theodore more than 500 times
every month.
To encourage those
professional users to purchase the AP-Edition but also keep it free for the
open-source and semi-professional community, we will limit the number
of nodes in an XML document supported by the Freeware
Edition.
Beginning of April,
the Web-startable Freeware edition will only be able to open, manage and save
XML documents that have less than a yet to determine number of nodes (tags).
Please plan accordingly, it may take up to 48 hours to completely process an
order.
Please
do not misinterpret this message as anything more than being clear and
upfront. Theodore will remain a freeware service product and most of you will
probably not ever hit the limit. Still, we are not completely free from
economical concerns and ask for your understanding and continued
support!
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