The browser Suite is here! Check it out!
Published by admin on Friday, November 20, 2009 - 03:18:45 - Filed under News, Announcements, Development, Plugins/beans, Servoy, Java
As demonstrated ‘live’ during Servoy Camp by the mysterious Mister P. (ask Bob Cusik about it) this ’sweet’ suite of native components (Web Browser, Flash Player and Html Editor) is ready for you to try on Servoy 5!
You will find it on the related page of the main site.
Soon on this very blog you will hear everything about the making of this stuff, all the nitty, all the gritty, all the details… but first I have to recover from a very bad flu thanks to the nice Denham climate.
You will hear about the battle to get this stuff work on all major platforms, why Mac OS X is such a case in itself and all the fun stuff involving Mac threading model, the Eclipse SWT bugzilla system being my best friend, how I went to Canada to work with a french guy with 6h delay in communication, and generally why I was so quiet during these last weeks…
I could write a book about it, but fear not, I will spare you the thread dump ;-)
Soon I will put up a google-code site or sourceforge.net site to give access to the source. I still need to find a way to publish the 4 related Eclipse projects along with the configuration stuff and installer related files in an easy to use SVN or CVS repository, with as little manual tweaking required as possible.
In the meantime, if you do try the stuff, I’d like to hear about it: the whole idea of releasing this stuff before v1 is to get as much feedback as possible on the widest range of configurations, uses and abuses, and get as much DETAILED report as possible.
So email me your bug reports, feature requests, suggestions, comments, insults and everything you want to say about it, using the contact form or via PM on the Servoy forum.
