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drainyoo · Sep 26, 2004, 08:11 PM

Is there an Omniweb specific forum around? Like the ones for Firefox and Camino?

TETENAL · Sep 26, 2004, 08:32 PM

There is a mailing list:

http://www.omnigroup.com/application...web/omniweb-l/

drainyoo · Sep 26, 2004, 08:36 PM

Thanks. No forum though?

Millennium · Sep 26, 2004, 08:38 PM

As far as I'm aware, the Omni Group does not operate their own forums. Neither does the Mozilla group; the Firefox and Camino boards you speak of are run by a separate though related organization.

JKT · Sep 27, 2004, 10:29 AM

The mailing list is pretty active and, well, I thought this was the OmniWeb forum!

Krypton · Sep 27, 2004, 10:56 AM

There will be an Omni forum very soon, I have inside info from Brian the tech support guy

drainyoo · Sep 27, 2004, 10:57 AM

Originally posted by Krypton:
There will be an Omni forum very soon, I have inside info from Brian the tech support guy

Yeah...ask him when 5.1 is going to be released!

Krypton · Sep 27, 2004, 11:13 AM

Originally posted by drainyoo:
Yeah...ask him when 5.1 is going to be released!

If you read the OmniWeb thread, you'd know that 5.1 is done - they're just getting everything organised for a release.

drainyoo · Sep 27, 2004, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by Krypton:
If you read the OmniWeb thread, you'd know that 5.1 is done - they're just getting everything organised for a release.

I did read the Omni thread and I did read that it was done. I just wanted to see if anyone knew if they had decided on a date. Thats all. No harm done.

Krypton · Sep 27, 2004, 03:11 PM

Originally posted by drainyoo:
I did read the Omni thread and I did read that it was done. I just wanted to see if anyone knew if they had decided on a date. Thats all. No harm done.

Sorry, didn't mean to be too patronising. The forum is done too apparently, so not sure what's up... the website suggests they spent all their time interviewing their pets

drainyoo · Sep 27, 2004, 03:41 PM

Originally posted by Krypton:
Sorry, didn't mean to be too patronising. The forum is done too apparently, so not sure what's up... the website suggests they spent all their time interviewing their pets

HAHA. No problem man.

MrBS · Sep 27, 2004, 06:46 PM

I'd sure welcome a forum. It would be nice to make OW stuff 2 or 3 dimensional instead of these linear omnithreads that touch on everything and are a few hundred posts long. Not easy to scan or search or keep up on.

~BS

yskar · Sep 27, 2004, 07:20 PM

Originally posted by Krypton:
The forum is done too apparently, so not sure what's up... the website suggests they spent all their time interviewing their pets

OK, I'm gonna ask Ash the release date of OW 5.1...um...anybody knows his voice mail number?

nickm · Sep 27, 2004, 08:46 PM

You know what would be totally, massively, amazingly cool? OmniForum.app.

Here's what I see. You get a webforum like UBBThreads and it runs on a web server and any schmo with a web browser can view it. Or, you buy OmniForum for $30, which keeps track of the threads you viewed, has a full fledged editor, a nice interface for browsing and sorting threads, and lets you completely control stuff like the font size and appearance. There could also be a nice search interface that accumulated all the postings that met your requirement and let you jump quickly to their context in the thread.

Provided it could work with existing popular webforums, I think this would be a killer product idea...

drainyoo · Sep 27, 2004, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by nickm:
You know what would be totally, massively, amazingly cool? OmniForum.app.

Here's what I see. You get a webforum like UBBThreads and it runs on a web server and any schmo with a web browser can view it. Or, you buy OmniForum for $30, which keeps track of the threads you viewed, has a full fledged editor, a nice interface for browsing and sorting threads, and lets you completely control stuff like the font size and appearance. There could also be a nice search interface that accumulated all the postings that met your requirement and let you jump quickly to their context in the thread.

Provided it could work with existing popular webforums, I think this would be a killer product idea...

That sounds like an awesome idea.

Amorya · Sep 28, 2004, 05:37 AM

Sounds pretty cool. They'd need to have plugins to work with each kind of forum software though... mebbe make it extendable so that people can write the new plugins.

I'd buy it.

Amorya

godzookie2k · Sep 28, 2004, 05:54 PM

I built one of those once.

F_Elz · Sep 28, 2004, 08:06 PM

Doesn't sound practical.

MrBS · Sep 28, 2004, 09:01 PM

Seems like it could be a cool idea but I'm not sure it's really an OW one. OW doesn't really bring any more common functionality to your app than webkit would, in fact it would sort of highlight one of the few weaknesses of OW's interface as it would probably have a layout similar to RSS.

~BS

nickm · Sep 30, 2004, 08:38 PM

Sounds pretty cool. They'd need to have plugins to work with each kind of forum software though... mebbe make it extendable so that people can write the new plugins.

Yeah, it would have to be supported on the server with some sort of web services API. If it was just screen scraping it would be a horrible, terrible mess. Apparently Infopop's Eve is extensible, but I think that it might not have what it takes to make a rich client app possible. I think it's a missed opportunity, both for them and for other developers, because rich clients could grow the online forum market, I think.