RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Freeing Memory

[Pascal <pb...@oi...>]

Well to get this said in time:

I think that any moves towards a DynAPI3 should be on a seperate sourceforge
project (or atleast other location).

I have absolutely no interest in doing everything all over again or even
participating in a venture like that.

The DynAPI2 has been in development for little more then a year  now, and we
"made" everyone drop the dynapi1 in favour of DynAPI2 saying "dynapi1 is
discontinued, dynapi2 will support ie55 and ns6 and other new browsers, it's
better more flexible and you should just use it"

Now you guys are thinking about doing it all over again.. this means you'r
saying to all the users (and there are ALOT)  sorry people, now you'll have
to use this unfinished-slightly-not-100%-working version of a crossbrowser
library  because we're going to redo everything.

Most people here haven't been involved with the full developing of the
DynAPI, I can think of only 3 persons at this moment that have been
participating in the development for this long period (and still only about
3-5 persons doing all the stuff: documentation, bug fixing, patches,
administrating, etc).

In one more year, alot of you will have abonded the API3 completely, leaving
only a few guys on board.. the API will work crossbrowser partially, and not
fully supporting the latest browsers (by that time something like versions
110 of those browsers and DOM20)... Seen it happen already with this code,
don't want to redo it just to end up with the same thing.

In the beginning we had clean code, it was backwards compatible and was nice
to look at, but didn't had the powerfull functionality it has now.. There's
not much wrong with the current API, the only thing is that no body ever
took the time to go thru the code and optimise it. I for one will keep
working on THIS version of the API and know it can be cleaned up, and make
it work on any other future browsers coming our way.

let the flaming begin.

Pascal Bestebroer (pb...@oi...)
Software ontwikkelaar
Oberon Informatiesystemen b.v.
http://www.oibv.com