From quanta-devel  Sun Jul 30 04:14:06 2006
From: Eric Laffoon <sequitur () easystreet ! com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:14:06 +0000
To: quanta-devel
Subject: [quanta-devel] Visual development - the big question
Message-Id: <200607292114.06804.sequitur () easystreet ! com>
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Hi all,
As I posted previously to the user list I have not been very active this year. 
If you did not see the post here is the short of it... Last year in Malaga I 
was having difficult concentrating and a week after I was home I felt like I 
needed a vacation again. By early this year I could not sit in front of a 
computer for 15 minutes without getting a headache. I have almost never had a 
headache my whole life. In March I went to my naturopathic doctor who 
promptly sent me to the emergency room with bloodpressure exceeding 220/115. 
I responded well and it seems it had not been going on long so there was 
minimal damage, but had I not gone I might well be dead by now. Since then 
I've been on the least medication possible and approaching my health with 
natural medicine and nutritional therapy, including now weekly visits to the 
doctor for intravenous nutrition therapy, NAET allergy treatment and things 
like silkworm extract. Recently my cholesterol went from somewhat alarming to 
practically textbook and my bloodpressure at my last visit (her machine is 
more accurate than mine) was 136/84. I'm feeling way better than I did. I was 
on bed rest and now I'm working my ass off with my business, but my energy is 
up, even though it some respects I have a ways to go.

So I'm beginning to phase in activity in the project again. Recently I saw 
good news regarding Apple's Webcore patches getting into KHTML for KDE 4. 
This brings me to an obvious and somewhat nervous question... Will anyone be 
working on VPL for KDE 4 development and also will any of those developers be 
able to make it to the conference this September in Dublin. To be blunt, this 
should be the absolute best platform to finally address what needs to be done 
and it would be a tragic shame to to let the ball drop, especially as it 
means we could potentially have trouble even supporting visual development 
without someone on it.

I'd like to restate that what we need is along with the improvements a context 
sensitive visual implementation for editing content, the ability to do XSLT 
on the fly and good integration with tools for CSS and rendering included 
pages with parent CSS data. I'm hoping I will not have to begin lobbying for 
someone to do this and that Nicolas and Moura will be able to devote some 
time, if nothing else to help us get people up to speed.

Please let me know, and if you want to get to the conference we'll see what we 
can do there too.

Eric
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