Hi, On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:27:31PM -0500, Patrick wrote:
Hi Everyone.
I think there may be people on this list from Chile, I hope this message finds you all safe and your situation stable.
Sorry in advance if this email is too long.
I am attracted to Dillo because of it's relatively small code base, the sloccount command gives me about 50K. Webkit is almost 2 million and it's not even a full browser, just an engine.
I have a insane idea. I would like to create command line tools/browser hybrids. I would like to strip out all networking ability and add in full file system access, perhaps through special <read-io> <write-io> tags to a Dillo fork. The problem I would like to solve is a way to create a very simple rapid application desktop environment for chemists to use. GTK, QT, WxWidgets etc all take time to learn but many people can throw some HTML together. I was thinking that I could make small dillo-fied applications that the scientists could then alter to suit there specific needs. All access would be through local files.
40K) I expect to be back on track by the fall, we are already
My Son was diagnosed with Autism a couple of years ago, he is getting much better now but we have taken a huge financial hit( pulling out of it. My project would be open source but for profit, I do/will have some capital to put towards my project. I am not sure what would be required to complete the CSS support and to add Javascript. I am not sure if the Dillo community wants these things but my networked crippled version could be a testing ground for features that would not necessarily have to go back into Dillo. If anyone wanted to help, what would be a suitable donation to achieve these goals be? Although I am learning I still suck at C/C++, despite this I can also contribute coding time if someone could spare a bit of time mentoring?
Am I totally nuts? Could something like this be done?
Regarding the commercial aspect of the idea I can only say that you need to think at least twice as much about how to actually make money from your idea as you need about the technical details. This will be the hard part... Regarding the technical questions: * For complete CSS 2.1 support, so that dillo would e.g. pass the ACID test I would estimate about 1.5 staff years for a pretty experienced programmer. * For JavaScript support I don't know enough about the details to make an estimation. If you need full CSS support and JavaScript go with an existing compliant solution like webkit. Then if your code works you could come back and check how dillo could be enhanced so it works with dillo too. Do one thing after the other. Cheers, Johannes