[express-devel] Re: more fixes

[Brian St . P. <bst...@me...>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:36:49PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:22:27PM -0500, Brian St.Pierre wrote:
> > > Stuff that, IMHO, needs to be fixed before a release:
> > >   * HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 should work

Just checked in the http module to cvs.  Works wonderfully -- I was able to
visit several different sites without any crashes.  HTTP needs to be
implemented a little bit better -- it still isn't handling much of the
protocol except for the initial fetches.

> > > Another thing is that GNOME already has a help-browser that comes close
> > > to what Express is/does. Some parts are also more sophisticated than the
> > > respective functionality in Express currently is.

I just tried out the gnome-help-browser (v1.0.4).  It seems pretty nice,
but (at least the version that I have) doesn't seem to do network fetches.
So, for now at least, I'll continue working on express.  I will probably
look at some of their newer releases, and the code base that they have --
just to see what would be required to convert it into a general-purpose
browser.

The next piece that I write will perform the fetches of the remote
image files contained in the current page.

-Brian