Re: gtkhtml

[<bob thestuff net>]

I dont often back forks, but cschtml has my support. It saddens me that
agreement is for some reason really lacking, but I feel the fork was
justified. I have always liked how gnome didnt try to duplicate work by
useing libs like libxml that work in non gnome apps (like blade), but this
is the first time I have seen gnome fall short of that. 

To the gtkhtml people,
please dont get all in a huff about this. This guy has tried to add
support for a gtk only version, making gtkhtml live up to its name, and
add features (like the extended font tag), but you rejected the patches.
My suggestion is, look at the patches and accept his work. It will speed
up gtkhtml's development time, makeing your life easier. Also, I've heard
alot of "well, we dont wana do it, but if you want to code it, go ahead".
He did "go ahead and code it" but you rejected it. If he's willing to do
all the work, I dont see any problem in makeing gtkhtml live up to its
name.

On 29 Jun 2000, Steven Kordik wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:40:34 +0200, Daniel Veillard said:
> 
> >    Forking first, trying to justify a posteriori ain't a sane attitude
> >  either.
> >  
> 
> I need no justification beyond the gratitude of my users.
> 
> I do not expect the members of gnome-list to agree with me.  By the very
> nature of this list, the people on it have no problem with using and
> linking to GNOME libs.	In your minds my library is a waste of space,
> since it duplicates an existing GNOME library.	This I can understand
> completely.  If my target market for CSCMail was GNOME users, I would
> gladly link to GNOME libs and would never have bothered with this fork. 
> But, my target market is more broad than GNOME users.  Therefore I will
> not (can not) allow my program to be shackled to GNOME libs.  Hopefully
> you can see the logic in that?
> 
> -CZ
> 
> P.S.
> 	Judging from the amount of support I have received for CscHTML
> (off this list and on) I am very glad I did this fork, it has been well
> recieved by developers outside of the GNOME community, and is already
> being used in several other projects.  It seems that I was correct in
> thinking that there was a demand for a non-GNOME dependant Gtk HTML
> widget...
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