Re: 1k buffer prevents proper display of dynamic content

> > Amaya is mainly an editor with some browsing features.
> > The feature you requested takes less importance in that context.
> >
> Of course that the Amaya developing team has all the right in specifying what 
> is and what is of no importance to the development of Amaya,
> in spite of what Irene said a few weeks ago: «I let people decide what is 
> good for us.» ;-)
> The excuse of Amaya being mainly an HTML editor has been given many times. 
> And I admit it is more than an excuse! It is a reason for doing one thing and 
> for not doing the other.

Unfortunately we have to make choices because we don't have the manpower to
satisfy all requests. Developing HTML, SVG, MathML, RDF, CSS, and XML supports
for both Unix and Windows platforms represents an important charge for a 4 
people team. That explains why our implementations are not complete and some
useful features are not provided yet.

> 	However, sometimes, I find difficult to understand how some suggested 
> features are so easily accepted and quickly implemented, compared to others. 
> For example, just a couple of weeks ago, someone suggested that Amaya should 
> have an option for saving a file with CR+LF, instead of just LF. The Amaya 
> team immediately accepted the suggestion and promised the feature for the 
> next version! Although this is really on the editor side of Amaya, it is a 
> completely unnecessary feature (by Jove, who still uses notepad?...)

I agree this feature was not absolutely necessary, but it was not the first 
time
we received the request for saving a file with CR+LF and it didn't represent 
an
important investment for us as we were updating this part of the code.

> 	Back to the present issue. My interest in Amaya is that it is both an 
> (WYSIWYG) editor and a browser. A request such as the present, regarding the 
> usability of Amaya as a browser, seems to me very reasonable! Why do you find 
> it so uninteresting to so quickly dismiss the idea? (I would accept more 
> easily an answer such as: "Changing the rendering buffering system is far to 
> hard to implement at present, and can not be considered a priority, 
> considering that Amaya is primarily an editor tool".

We didn't quickly dismiss the idea. We experimented that feature first but it 
generated synchronization troubles and we know that these kinds of trouble are
no easily fixed. It's why we stopped investment in that direction.

> 	At one point I have to agree: the Amaya team should really endeavour to make 
> Amaya a USEFUL and STABLE editor, as soon as possible, and not waste time 
> with absolutely useless features!
> 
> Keep up the work
> José

Received on Monday, 12 November 2001 04:47:00 UTC