Jim Burton <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, I'm a very happy user of Conkeror for some 6 months or so, having got > fed up of reverting from w3m to Firefox for sites that use Javascript. I > hope no one takes it the wrong way if I ask what the feelings are on this > list about its future? How many developers are there and how quickly are > new features added? What is the best guess for how many users there > are?
I can provide some assurance that Conkeror isn't going to stagnate completely anytime soon, as I (and I believe the other developers as well) depend on it for our web browsing needs and don't see there being any comparable alternative browser coming out. (If Google Chromium is finally released for Linux and proves to be amenable for implementing a Conkeror-like browser on top of it, then I (and perhaps some other developers) might indeed be tempted to try to rewrite Conkeror for it, as from what I understand (at least once it becomes stable), it should provide a much faster, simpler, and more robust platform than Mozilla, but that would just be another phase in the evolution of Conkeror.) Development of Conkeror is somewhat slower now than it has been at various points in the past, though there are a good number of reasonably active developers (about 4-5), and the slowdown is in, part, I think, because many important features have already been implemented. It is hard to estimate the number of users, since we only really know about those that speak up on the mailing list or on the IRC channel. (We don't have any download statistics at the moment.) -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
