Re: GNUstep Web browser (was Re: WebKit Bounty)

[Jesse Ross]

> To take that a step further ... even if some people are really  
> hostile to an idea on the discussion list, that doesn't usually  
> reflect the attitude of the project as a whole or that of the core  
> developers, and it's highly likely that other people would welcome  
> contributions that a small minority have loudly complained about.   
> It's also easy to massively over-estimate the amount of opposition  
> that the author of an email meant to communicate.
>
> So, it would be a mistake to be put off by negative sounding  
> comments.  Rather, you should assess them, take technical ideas  
> from them where appropriate, and make up your own mind.

This is a great point. I originally posted the bounty for WebKit  
because, as a web developer, that really _is_ what I would like to  
see, and what I am willing to put money towards. However,  
SimpleWebKit and some of the other solutions that have been brought  
up (like using HTML Tidy), don't seem like bad ideas in the slightest  
-- in fact, they may very well turn out to be great solutions that  
get us further than a port would. So, while the bounty doesn't apply  
to them, that doesn't mean that those options shouldn't be explored,  
if they scratch someone's itch by covering the use-cases that their  
app requires.


J.