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Re: VPL
by Eric Laffoon on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @22:38

> Where are the screenshots of VPL?

As I mentioned on another post, I kind of zoned out on this. I'll take new ones and post them soon. Look for a mention on the other thread here.

> How is it coming along?

It's progressing fairly well I think. Really it's difficult to assess in some ways because there are a lot of pieces coming together and things can change dramatically on convergence. The later release of KDE 3.2 was less of an issue for Quanta with general bugs as our counts are pretty low. However in the areas of the parser and VPL there's a lot that needs "fixed". We have just done a substantial rework of the parser which provides benefits to speed and bug fixes in Quanta as well as greater capabilities. It also broke some things in VPL. Most of that has been fixed and a number of issues have been taken care of so that VPL is marginally usable now. It's usable for most editing tasks but has some focus issues for new element creation moving to the next element.

If I were to give a candid assessment I'd say that it's several months behind where I'd like it to be in a perfect world. I believe it will be stable and usable for 3.2 but we are just getting to reviewing how our theories work in use right now. This leads to fine tuning and if an interface enhancement is indicated it's pretty much going to end up in the BE branch. Some of our objectives that would set VPL way ahead such as being usable for non HTML markup will not be in this release. What VPL *will* accomplish in 3.2 is to write DTD compliant markup and *not* mangle your document. So if it falls short of virtual perfection it will at least avoid the terrible legacy of classic WYSIWYG markup butchers like FrontPage. Refinements will be available in futre BE releases prior to KDE 3.3/4.0.

> I'm interested in this new Quanta mode.

I think a lot of people are. One very cool thing that it does right now very well is to offer a split mode of visual and text where you can click on the page and have the cursor follow in text. Even being able to point on a page and go right to the underlying markup is quite liberating for an old hand coder like me. ;-)

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