Hi Frank, On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Frank de Lange wrote:
Hej!
Now that the first release of my tab patch is 'out there', I'd like to give a short overview of my plans for the next version of this patch.
If geocities stops working just let me know, or ask Andreas who mirrored the patch...
I do not know when I'll be able to release this next version, as I'm busy this week, followed by a trip to the UK (back the 13th of juli), but I will try to make it relatively soon...
No problem. Some time ago (maybe a lot), Arvind told me he had developed a "tabs" patch for dillo: http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo_tabs.png He had to work on it some more, then he got very busy, and I haven't heard of it in a long time... Technically, what interests me more about the patch is the separation of interface code out of document code. Now Sebastian is working on another separation; for CSS (it also involves several files), so I think it is better to keep both works separated until our re-structuring of the parser is well defined. I'd advise you to choose a date from CVS and improve the patch against it (not trying to catch up with current); that way the patch can be polished without too much hassle and with the feedback of interested developers. Then, when the time to merge comes, it will be stable, clean and polished. Personally, I can't look at it right now (because of the above mentioned reasons, plus I'm dedicated to the dillo plugins extensions). NOTE: We have advanced a lot with Ferdi on dpid, so it will soon be integrated and commited. ... it has come a tradition (or better, our way of development) to test a lot the patches before commiting them in. That way, the CVS keeps stable, the code clean, and we can keep up with the ideal of always releasing a better Dillo than the former. As you noticed, the patch generated a lot of feedback. I hope patches start to come just as bug notes! ;)
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Jorge, let me know if/when you plan to commit the patch to CVS
(read above) Last, but not the least, I also think that tabbing is a function that should/must be done by the WM. I always try to find "the right place" to put a patch, and IMO it belongs to the WM. Now, as these days only a few WMs come with good tabs support, and as the patch seems small, it should pose no major trouble to eventually commit it. Welcome aboard! Jorge.-