- From: E.E. Mellor <eem21@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:27:51 +0000 (GMT)
- To: jose.kahan@w3.org
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 jose.kahan@w3.org wrote: > Hello Ewan, > > > I have yet to find a low-cost graphical browser available for Linux that > > I consider satisfactory in use. However, Amaya is the closest I have come > > to that and I am willing to spend time on Amaya's development to bring it > > up to scratch. > > Sounds good. What is your wish list of things to improve? For me, it is very unstable. I've yet to spend time figuring out what the problem is, but I get "Thot: Unrecoverable error" a great deal. This seems to happen a lot when switching from browsing locally to browsing externally. It also seems to happen when I have been browsing a few pages to which Amaya does not like the syntax (lots of "Unexpected end tag" and "Thot tool kit error: element does not match DTD"). I would like to investigate that first and foremost. Secondly, I would like to bring Amaya's MathML display up to scratch. There are features missing - it would be nice if Amaya supported content tags, but I see that that could be a long job and I am not in such a rush for those. I have had trouble using <mfenced open="|"> or <mfenced open="∣">. What I want is for the expression to have vertical bars around it, indicating modulus or determinant. No matter what I tried, bars were not displayed. In fact, nothing was displayed. I would like to investigate this also. Other things to do with the maths display could be better. For example, the expression a y = - - b tends to be rendered so that the minus sign is connected to the line of the fraction, making the two indistinguishable often. This should be a very easy thing to fix. Also annoying are the missing entities, especially when they could easily be mapped to similar glyphs if the appropriate one is unavailable; I seem to remember having problems with "prime" in the past, and I think ⁢ was coming out as an integral sign instead of "InvisibleTimes". I would be able to fix these as and when I came across them. > I'd suggest you try to coordinate with the Amaya team to avoid the > duplication of work. Feel free to contact any of us. A problem I have is that, being a student, I am often very busy for weeks at a time. I would not like to put my name to a particular feature or bug-fix, as I could never guarantee when I would have time to work on it. I would prefer to be a "fringe" developer most of the time, submitting only small patches when I run across a little problem (such as the entities mentioned above). I will of course co-ordinate with others before I undertake large bug-fixes or add new features. My machine is available for testing; I could use pre-release versions of Amaya in my day-to-day work without the unstability being too much of a problem. CVS access would be useful here, as I could easily follow development quite closely. > > Whether or not Amaya is to be openly developed, anonymous CVS (or similar) > > access to the Amaya source would be useful. This would allow > > incremental source downloads, reducing download cost and load on your > > server. Is such access available? > > We're starting work on opening our Amaya CVS base to the public. > In a first time, it'll have world read-only access. This should take place > in one or two months. Depending on the response and on the quality of > contributions, we may open a write access to other people afterwards. The read-only access is exactly what I was after. This would be great. I shall soon be getting the latest (1.4?) release, at which point I shall see if the stability has improved. I shall then see what time I have available to offer for development (I get my timetable today :-). Many thanks, Ewan Mellor.
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