[Netsurf-develop] The Road to 1.0

[Daniel Silverstone]

Hi,

Currently the NetSurf team are working towards releasing version 1.0
of NetSurf for RISC OS. The team have various goals to achieve in
order for this release to be made. Some (but not all) of these are
listed below. Once version 1.0 has been released, various invasive
changes to the project are likely to occur.

Along side the !NetSurf RISC OS application, the codebase produces a
GTK+ version of the browser which is currently very basic. GTK+ is one
of the graphical toolkits used on GNU/Linux operating systems, but it
has also been ported to Windows, Solaris, the BSDs and various other
systems. For 1.0, it is intended that this browser remain very basic
and essentially it will exist as a debugging aid for working on the
core of the project. When 1.0 has released it will be promoted to a
fully fledged browser and we expect that NetSurf 2.0 will be
simultaneously released as a RISC OS browser and as a GTK browser on
as many platforms as we can compile it for. You can see an example of
the current state of the GTK+ version of NetSurf here:
   http://www.rjek.com/ns/iconrobe-nsgtk.png

Goals for 1.0 include:

 o Cookie support needs fixing
 o HTML list support needs finishing
 o CSS absolute positioning needs implementing
 o RISC OS Choices UI needs finishing

A more complete generalised TODO can be found at:
    http://netsurf.sourceforge.net/plan

There are also over one hundred bugs filed in the bug tracker
currently in use for the project. These will need to be triaged and
those which are appropriate, fixed before 1.0 can release.

Along the way to 1.0, the team will be looking at migrating from CVS
to Subversion[1] which is a better version control system, providing
certain features which will be useful as we move to supporting a
stable release of the browser.

Thank you for your time,

Daniel

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/

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