Hi, I want to start this 2010 year thanking all the people that have contributed to make Dillo what it is. It's been 10 years and a long way lays behind. Lots of people have shared their time/work/advice/help/money/. After all, what we have now is the addition of all those efforts. Thanks to you all!!! On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:38:03PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Do we currently have anything that needs to be fixed/implemented before a release would be sensible?
Not that I remember. The only problem I recall was the error message you reported with cookies and later seemed to be working somehow. Besides, AFAIS the repo is stable enough to start rolling the release process. BTW, the cookie story is frustrating. Generally speaking: vested interests strive to kill commodity technologies to introduce their own and henceforward profit monopoly-like. This happens everywhere in the area we deal with e.g. HTTP, HTML, SGML, XML, scripting, flash, java, video streams, audio, cookies, AJAX, etc. Remember that not even the big players were able (nor willing) to implement the SPECS they co-designed. Dillo's game so far had been to support a subset with emphasis on efficiency and privacy. The game is never solved, the point is to decide well where to prune (see bottom line). Speaking of technology: Ten years ago it was images and tables, the FTP, then CGI, then cookies (the stateless HTTP, now with state), then frames (which faded 5 years later), then SGML (which was replaced by XML), then XML (which never succeeded over HTML tag soup). Then CSS (which is necessary these days. Despite IE never gave much for it). Somewhere in the middle there was java (and java beans), but it died. Then Flash, then AJAX, then silverlight, the cloud... IMHO, beyond the hyped technologies "du jour", Dillo is relevant as long as it's able to serve as an efficient information gathering tool, with emphasis on privacy. -- Cheers Jorge.-