Re: chimera
Originally posted by iJon
last time i heard apple had hired a lead developer of chimera or mozilla or one of those programs. i think apple will make a web browser. this statements i am making are based on some stuff that was posted earlier this summer about apple hiring that guy.
iJon
apple hired dave hyatt the original leader of the chimera project. the project was handed over to mike pinkerton before dave went to apple.
RANDOM RUMORS/INFO TO FUEL THE FIRE:
1) it has been suggested that netscape is interested in chimera as the osx netscape.
2) chimera was auto-detected by jaguar's internet pref pane in beta builds.
3) apple used chimera in mwny presentations
4) a thank you to apple has been present in the chimera get info since at least .2
5) dave repeatedly denied associations between chimera and netscape or apple before being hired by apple (dave had formerly worked for netscape).
6) no one knows what dave is working on at apple...
when i first installed jag i decided to see if i could switch to chimera full time by trying to use it exclusively for a week. i have been using it ever since but here are my complaints:
1) sidebar wont open on left (violation apple HIG)
2) no contextual menu option to open in new tab.
3) no button to close tab (need to use command-w)
4) no contextual menu to block ads
5) no spell check (its cocoa so they just need to take advtange of services)
6) preferences lack ability to block popups (it will ask you once if a pop up appears and never again... dont miss your chance) and other annoying ad things (resize windows, move windows, etc)
7) poor proxy support (useless for me)
8) poor implementation of history/bookmarks (must use sidepanel and cant use the 'file bookmark' feature from moz)
looking at my list you will see it is incredibly nit-picky. i mean im digging to come up with things. all in all chimera is definitely at a point where it can be used as your main browser.... but dont take my word for it, check it out for yourself (
http://chimera.mozdev.org/)