On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:42:38 -0500, corvid <corvid@lavabit.com> wrote:
The hope is that someone (with any luck, not me) will learn enough FLTK 1.3 to figure out how to make it nice.
I'm sorry, but everything about that sentence makes me cringe. Not meaning this to attack anyone personally, but here's how I'd read the situation as an outsider: - Project leadership wants to switch toolkits, not for the first time. This takes time away from "real" development work (new features, bugfixes, documentation...), and suggests poor planning and indecisiveness. - The current developers aren't familiar with the new toolkit, and suggest -- seriously or otherwise -- they aren't particularly interested in learning it. This takes even more time away from real development, potentially results in buggier, lower quality software, and suggests all sorts of other things besides. - Twelve years and three toolkits later, there's still no support for such basic functionality as floating elements (HTML "align=" or CSS "float:"). See my other two points. I really like Dillo, and I really enjoy hacking on it (both for the code and the great development team). But the whole toolkit situation is throwing up all sorts of red flags, so I hope you can forgive me for voicing a few concerns. ~Benjamin