Hello Matt, On 2004-07-14, you wrote:
> Was that technical enough for you? Yes. Thanks a lot for the explanation. It was intresting reading. > Really, we have all of the serious bugs DOWN. They're all tested and > verified and waiting to be fixed. We just don't have time. > As for stuff that could come with MorphOS - I'm handling the ports of > JPEG, PNG and ZLIB libraries, and they're all available in shared > library form for MorphOS as of 1.5 - the Voyager image decoders will > use these (shared with Ambient, Datatypes and the like) which will > save about 300kb for each app that uses them instead of static libs. > The shared z.library brings out possibility for Content-Encoding > and Accept-Encoding support in Voyager, which will speed up downloads > from websites that use it (Excite.com, Yahoo.com and suchlike). It > didn't get done before because it would have meant having two static > linked libz implementations, one in V and one in the image decoders. > What a waste of memory ;) > There's a chance for multilanguage/multicodepage/unicode text and > font support. Depends if I have time to even code that library. I > might fix the style stack too. > I am definitely adding a popup-blocker/JS-blocker when I get the > chance. > Add that to the 100s of items that Olli and David may add in the > near or far, far future.. including CSS support and suchlike. I > wouldn't say development is stopped. But we're all busy! I don't > even have time for writing THIS :) It's good to know about the future plans. I've saved this mail for some later reading should I ever forget what was said :-) . Regards Jörgen Danielsson
