we've accomplished a lot, but without support in browsers, even the ones w/ less users, we haven't really reached some of the people who need metalink's features the most. they will never install plugins or external download managers.
so far, we have TheWorld browser. this is a great start, but we need more. Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, & Firefox would all be great to have on board what's holding them back? not enough sites? why aren't more sites using it? almost no browser support :) what can we do to speed things up? we have bounties for the open source browsers, Chrome & Firefox, & they're both waiting for someone to submit patches. Shawn Wilsher, in charge of Firefox's download manager code, is at least thinking about it: "Here's what I'm thinking the right approach to do this properly goes something like the following. Note that for coming up with this, I'm basically thinking how we could implement metalink downloads in an addon. " [1] http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4944688� http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=152871 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331979 [1] http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/9247f53da4527422# -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
