Dear John-Mark, Rob and other developers,
From recent mails I understood that the RISC OS frontend of NetSurf may
eventually be dropped, since it's lack of maintenance is obstructing the
development of the core code.
This may sound reasonable, but somehow I don't fully understand things.
Apart
Paul Sprangers p...@sprie.nl wrote:
From recent mails I understood that the RISC OS frontend of NetSurf may
eventually be dropped, since it's lack of maintenance is obstructing the
development of the core code.
This may sound reasonable, but somehow I don't fully understand things.
Apart
David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote:
The flaw in this is that none of the current NetSurf developers are RISC
OS programmers, they may not even be RISC OS users.
That really surprises me. I always thought that John-Mark c.s. were genuine
RISC OS users. Apparently, the assumption that
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:09:09 +0200
Paul Sprangers p...@sprie.nl wrote:
I therefore suspect that the main reason for such development is the
joy of programming. If that is true, why not maintain the RISC OS
front end your self? It will at least guarantee quite a number of
very grateful users,
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:16:10 +0200
Paul Sprangers p...@sprie.nl wrote:
David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote:
The flaw in this is that none of the current NetSurf developers are
RISC OS programmers, they may not even be RISC OS users.
That really surprises me. I always thought that
Hello!
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:37:41 +0100, Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org
wrote:
That really surprises me. I always thought that John-Mark c.s. were
genuine RISC OS users. Apparently, the assumption that contribution
to a RISC OS mailing list implies RISC OS usership, is indicating a
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:51 +0200, Amin Kharchi wrote:
Hello!
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:37:41 +0100, Rob Kendrick r...@netsurf-browser.org
wrote:
That really surprises me. I always thought that John-Mark c.s. were
genuine RISC OS users. Apparently, the assumption that contribution
to a
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:32 +0200
Amin Kharchi amin@kharchi.eu wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:37:41 +0100, Rob Kendrick
r...@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
That really surprises me. I always thought that John-Mark c.s. were
genuine RISC OS users. Apparently, the assumption that
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:39 +0100, A W wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:53 PM, John-Mark Bell
j...@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
Future major changes to the way in which the core works are liable to
require corresponding changes in platform frontends. If any given
frontend has no
Rob Kendrick wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:39:47 +0100
A W aw29...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you not just take some time out and modify the RO front end?
Can't you? Personally, I don't have the will power.
Perhaps you should just stick to working on drippingsarcasm.lib.so :-)
--
David J. Ruck
In article 4c6a9b0d0909160539q561ea62aj8996cbfdc7813...@mail.gmail.com,
A W aw29...@gmail.com wrote:
[Snip]
Can you not just take some time out and modify the RO front end?
I know the answer is going to be: If insert name has the time and
enthusiasm, why doesn't insert name do the job?
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:58:23 +0100
Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote:
In the meantime, continued begging at the feet of the developers is
unlikely to bear fruit. They have moved on. Though why onto other
platforms replete with more capable browsers may remain a mystery to
some of us. ;-)
Writing
Quoting Tim Hill t...@timil.com:
Personally, the only way I could do it would be to learn the rest of 'C'
first and then get stuck in to the probable hours, days, weeks, months
necessary. I and others need to eat, pay bills and have a roof above.
I think the idea is to work on NetSurf instead
Quoting John-Mark Bell j...@netsurf-browser.org:
Frankly, we'd take anything we get right now. Contrary to popular
belief, we have no desire to ditch the RISC OS frontend out of hand.
Additionally, we have a great deal of experience in introducing new
developers to our codebase and ways of
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:04:42 +0100
dave higton davehig...@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
So why don't I work on NetSurf? Well, I've looked at a couple of
major projects in C written by other people. I eventually took
fright after failing to make head or tail of them. (If C isn't
written following
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:09:36 +0100
dave higton davehig...@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
Quoting John-Mark Bell j...@netsurf-browser.org:
Frankly, we'd take anything we get right now. Contrary to popular
belief, we have no desire to ditch the RISC OS frontend out of hand.
Additionally, we have a
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:16:10 +0200, Paul Sprangers wibbled on for an age:
David Pitt pit...@pittdj.co.uk wrote:
The flaw in this is that none of the current NetSurf developers are RISC
OS programmers, they may not even be RISC OS users.
That really surprises me. I always thought that
In message 1253105573.5804.236.ca...@duiker
John-Mark Bell j...@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
Future major changes to the way in which the core works are liable to
require corresponding changes in platform frontends. If any given
frontend has no maintainer, then the chances of the
On 16 Sep, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote in message
mpro.kq2r4w0002fm5005w@powys.org:
On 16 Sep at 14:58, Tim Hill t...@timil.com wrote:
Are there 500 user of the RISC OS version of NetSurf willing to donate
£4 a month to support a developer?
www.pledgebank.com/netsurf4riscos
Anyhow I
On 16 Sep, Rob Kendrick wrote in message
20090916125441.08b4b...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:32 +0200
Amin Kharchi amin@kharchi.eu wrote:
It would be fair for any RISC OS user if the homepage says the truth:
RISC OS has no priority! Its only the rest.
On 17 Sep, aw29...@gmail.com wrote in message
512be99b50.and...@no.reply:
In message 1253105573.5804.236.ca...@duiker
John-Mark Bell j...@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
Future major changes to the way in which the core works are liable
to require corresponding changes in platform
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