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February 27, 2010 09:03 PM Filed in: hurrikenux
| Demeter
I suppose it is time
to make an announcement, especially to my loyal users
who have waited patiently for any bit of news.
Long story short, Demeter 2 was coming along decently but hit roadblocks when trying to add in future technologies supported in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Most of this is due to issues regarding needing to keep in older code sets as the Shiira 1.X codebase is hard-coded to use it for custom interface elements (and Tab Expose for example). This, coupled with hard times on the home front, has made work extremely challenging.
For this reason, I’ve had to scrap everything and start over. Starting from scratch is not an easy task, but I can pull in previous work once the browser base is set. Demeter has always been meant to be an alternative to other WebKit-based browsers with unique features, and while the Social Networking additions will fuel this I would like to take a fresh approach to how the web browsing is done. Tabs are great, and almost all browsers use them now, but tabs take up screen real estate. What is the next step in browser evolution past tabs? Any ideas for this would be greatly appreciated.
I will also be moving web hosts in a month or so. This means losing the current host this site and forums reside on and moving everything to my existing MobileMe account. The forums will likely be dumped ( again I know, sorry
) in favor of using Google Groups
or Get Satisfaction. I hope that all of you that
have stuck with me will continue to do so, as I
would like to make the next release of Demeter
the best ever. The release that brings tons of
new features and tons of new users, and what I
hope you and I were all waiting for
together.
Long story short, Demeter 2 was coming along decently but hit roadblocks when trying to add in future technologies supported in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Most of this is due to issues regarding needing to keep in older code sets as the Shiira 1.X codebase is hard-coded to use it for custom interface elements (and Tab Expose for example). This, coupled with hard times on the home front, has made work extremely challenging.
For this reason, I’ve had to scrap everything and start over. Starting from scratch is not an easy task, but I can pull in previous work once the browser base is set. Demeter has always been meant to be an alternative to other WebKit-based browsers with unique features, and while the Social Networking additions will fuel this I would like to take a fresh approach to how the web browsing is done. Tabs are great, and almost all browsers use them now, but tabs take up screen real estate. What is the next step in browser evolution past tabs? Any ideas for this would be greatly appreciated.
I will also be moving web hosts in a month or so. This means losing the current host this site and forums reside on and moving everything to my existing MobileMe account. The forums will likely be dumped ( again I know, sorry
) in favor of using Google Groups
or Get Satisfaction. I hope that all of you that
have stuck with me will continue to do so, as I
would like to make the next release of Demeter
the best ever. The release that brings tons of
new features and tons of new users, and what I
hope you and I were all waiting for
together.