> 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.. 

I understand that, but only because I've been in a simular situation. 
Took over a project, then only to have my job get in the way. 
Unfortunately, the timeliness of the statement in regards to Yvonn's
announcement may scare some folks...  I fully realize that Voyager has
had, and is continuing to have, more development than any other Amiga
browser!  I have more than several beta's on this Amiga ;o)  Thanks to
the hard work at Vapor...  

I have been greatly satisfied with all of my Vapor products, well...
Saving for MetalWeb... But, that's a horse of a different color.

> > before there are any).
> 
> What rumours could their possibly be?
> 
> I'll make a public statement for you:
> 
> V isn't dead.

Well, thanks.   I assumned it wasn't, but there are some folks who
would assume otherwise...



> 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.

I haven't seen the sources, but I will download AWeb's sources to have
a look see.  I'm not the greatest programmer in the world, but I can
muddle through C/C++...

> Did anyone ever mention that Voyager runs on 3 platforms? :)

AmigaOS, MorphOS, and are you hinting at AmigaOS4? 8-)

> 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.

Dude, that would ROCK!  I would love to see those tests, just for the
novelty of it!  Please, don't think I was making any accusations.  I
just felt that the Amiga community might benefit from some reassuring
words...

> 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?

Wow, I must have hit a sore spot.  I'm sorry!  I swear, I wasn't
calling anyone lazy!  And the finger thing, was in reference to the
PHP call to the '.plan' of a particular coder (i.e. the finger).  

You talked me into looking, but I'm not a great C programmer.  My last
job was COBOL coging with a dash of perl...

> 
> It also has, through my tests at least, the best support for HTML
> features in any Amiga browser (barring a few completely missing

Well, at least Voyager doesn't have "<--" on any pages I regularly
visit!

> of form elements. But trust me, they do suck.

Again, I state that my most used browser is Voyager.  I am registered
too. ;o)  I swear I wasn't slamming you guys.  I, and I'm sure most V
users, really appreciate all the effort that has gone into Voyager.

> 
> It also has the best support mailing list on the planet (whee), an

Do you mean to tell me that the IBrowse list still functions?!!?  I
thought their support list was dead a year ago, and their website has
been dead for so long, I can't remember what it looked like!

> 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.

Thus explaining all the beta's that I have here--and the fact that
V is the only amiga browser that works correctly on
www.bnuniversity.com ;o)

> 
> Is V dead? No.. very much alive, and the best browser available,
> maintained by the best software team on the Amiga. So there.

Now, I honestly meant a public statement on vapor.com ;o)  for those
who don't live on the list ;o) Well, sulk around on the list..
Whatever ;)
-- 
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Regards,

Dave "Targhan" C.

REBOL-izer, AmigaNaught
Amiga.ORG http://www.amiga.org
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