> Heys, > > Not to be off topic, but Yvonn has 'given up' on AWeb. The sources > are available under a gnu-type licence. Look at this link for more > info on that: http://www.xs4all.nl/~yrozijn/aweb/index.html Add this > fact to Ollie giving Zapek the controls of Vapor, and it begins > tolook a little scary!
Why? Olli is still working on stuff but he has a real job which means he has no time to manage the cvs repository and deal with users and build releases and make decisions.. > note that this would be a good time for Ollie/Zapek to make a public > statement about their competitor and future plans! (kill the rumors > before there are any). What rumours could their possibly be? I'll make a public statement for you: V isn't dead. Slightly less official statement: .. It's the defacto standard browser for MorphOS and just so happens to be architecturally the best and most flexibly designed (believe me.. if you could see the source of AWeb and V side by side, you wonder how AWeb even launches..) and also the most eminently portable. Did anyone ever mention that Voyager runs on 3 platforms? :) V also benefits from tight MUI integration (helps when the guy coding the browser is maintaining the GUI system) so that it has all of the new features first - smooth scrolling webpages and so on - and also exploits the advanced features of MorphOS with alpha channeled PNG images - I'm sure Zapek could dig out the screenshot of Voyager passing the tests PERFECTLY where IBrowse and AWeb and even Internet Explorer fail miserably. It also happens to be the only Amiga webbrowser with inline Flash support, as crappy as it may be sometimes. It could support inline movies if only someone would write a plugin (and this is SO easy to do). Does IBrowse or AWeb have this? It also has, through my tests at least, the best support for HTML features in any Amiga browser (barring a few completely missing things in the beta), and the best Javascript implementation in terms of raw featureset. It's a pity I can't show you how much AWeb and IBrowse suck with Javascript event handling or their use of form elements. But trust me, they do suck. Voyager also has a 100% identical table cell balancing algorithm to that of Internet Explorer 5.5, which means that table cells are placed and sized EXACTLY how the page author sees them on his PC (barring a tiny bug not related to the table layout object) It also has the best support mailing list on the planet (whee), an actively maintained bug list (internal, not bugs.vapor.com) which is managed by an expert (*cough*, me) and regular beta releases and fast-track bug hunting and fixing. Is V dead? No.. very much alive, and the best browser available, maintained by the best software team on the Amiga. So there. (toot toot) -- Matt _____________________________________________________________________ Voyager Mailing List - http://v3.vapor.com/ Voyager FAQ....: http://faq.vapor.com/voyager/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=HELP Unsubscribe....: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE
