Chimera is dying. I feel like crying..
<a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=51330&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&thresho ld=1&mode=nested&commentsort=0&op=Change" target="_blank">slashdot article link</a>
I love this browser. I hope that at least it makes it to its v1.0 birthday.
[insert tearful emoticon here]
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
I love this browser. I hope that at least it makes it to its v1.0 birthday.
[insert tearful emoticon here]
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
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This doesn't sadden me at all. People that want to write something like Chimera can make just as good a browser (it not better) by using WebCore.
Remember, folks: competition is a good thing. It drives the development of better apps.
its an open source browser which means anyone who wants to develop can so. Since it has a large user base i dont think it wouldnt take long before some-one took it on. even if just a couple of people dropped the develpoment of it there would 10 more people willing to jump on the bandwagon.
<strong>I fixed your link. Though, it only pointed to the comments. The original post is <a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/20/1538201&tid=95" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Thanks Brad.
Perhaps a DONATION system can be set up, and all of us who want the development to continue could contribute little cash. I'd pay $5 for Chimera development to continue. 1,000,000/2 x $5 = Enough $$$$ to reach v.1.0?
Oh, what a shity day. Damn you Apple!
Frankly there is nothing to damn Apple about. I love Chimera, but Pinkerton is being a wuss and he knows it. Hopefully he will snap out of it after this passes and do his job, OR he'll leave the project and hopefully someone inspired will take over. Time will tell.
<strong>Damn you Apple!</strong><hr></blockquote>
No...damn *you*!
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No...damn *you*!</strong><hr></blockquote>
LOL
Ok. A little itzy bitzy bitty of an over reaction.. Let?s not damn anyone, just yet.
When Safari gets Chimera's features why use Chimera? It just doesn't have the muscle behind it that Safari does. Safari will eclipse it in a matter of months and we'll all forget about it. Bye.
Chimera's only virtue is fast updates, but then, nightlies are buggy. Bye Chimera.
Chimera will continue to benefit from that progress.
<strong>People that want to write something like Chimera can make just as good a browser (it not better) by using WebCore.</strong><hr></blockquote>
KHTML isn't nearly as good as Gecko, although it may get there in a while.
(Remember, before Chimera the only choices we really had were: Internet Exploder (Internet Explorer), Nutscrape (Netscape), iHad (iCab) and finally Omnibus (Omniweb) all of which had and still have marginal performance. Omnibus (Omniweb) had the best performance of the lot, but still left ALOT to be desired. Chimera has given the browser wars a kick in the dumper.)
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People that want to write something like Chimera can make just as good a browser (it not better) by using WebCore.
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[quote]Originally posted by Chucker:
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KHTML isn't nearly as good as Gecko, although it may get there in a while.
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I think Brad's point was that building a Cocoa browser (or any kind web app) from Apple supplied components will be much easier than with the Mozilla components.
In other words building a better browser (whatever that means to the individual developer/user), not a better rendering component.
<strong>I think Brad's point was that building a Cocoa browser (or any kind web app) from Apple supplied components will be much easier than with the Mozilla components.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Once the WebKit SDK is out, yes, I can agree.
[quote]<strong>In other words building a better browser (whatever that means to the individual developer/user), not a better rendering component.</strong><hr></blockquote>
But you'll be limited to KHTML as a back-end, which was my point.
[quote]It's easy to get sidetracked on the "woe is me, we lost again" tangent (especially if you've been at Netscape for 5+ years), but it's time to get back to why we're doing this at all: because it's fun.<hr></blockquote>
Chalk it up to a moment of despair from one (albeit a major) member of the Chimera project. I'm using and liking Safari these days, but still fire up Chimera from time to time when I *NEED* the tabs; I'm still eager to see the progress of both browsers as they approach 1.0.
[ 01-21-2003: Message edited by: Dr. Pweent ]</p>