Hi all,
I've been umming and arring about responding to this for a few days, but
basically I'd like to offer some help if I can. I noticed that Steve Fryatt
also said he was interested, and he has a _lot_ more experience to bring to the
team than me, but I might in time be able to bring something useful as well. I
don't have any published software - I've always spent too long planning things
and not enough actually doing them!
I have to warn you all:
1) I haven't been a serious programmer since I worked for Oregan Networks about
6 years ago. Albeit that was on their browser (what RISC OS users know as
Oregano 2) and was in C, so very relevant to Netsurf. However, I was involved
in porting (to the PS2 - but mainly back-end stuff, very little GUI) and core
functionality like encoding support, so that's not so relevant to what's wanted
here. I do have some experience in WIMP programming, but that was even longer
ago! Nevertheless, I've tried to keep relatively up-to-date with the
developments in the RISC OS WIMP as it's moved forward.
2) I have no experience of GCC or UnixLib...yet!
3) I have very little spare time. My main job is translating, and, as I work
from home, it tends to eat up all of my time! So I doubt I'd be able to put in
more than a few hours a week on Netsurf. The first few months are almost
certainly just going to be me trying to figure out in some way how Netsurf
works, with no useful input at all!
4) I only have an a9home and VRPC to test on. No Iyonix and no RISC PC (I have
one, but I won't be able to get it for about 6 months I should think).
Nevertheless, I'm willing to try! I will have a stab at getting a build
environment set up next week as a first milestone (I see from recent
discussions that building on RISC OS has been made significantly easier just
lately).
And that's that. I'd be really disappointed to see Netsurf disappear on RISC
OS. It's a great piece of software.
Will Blatchley (wpb)
