0.0.5 Released

I just released Foxkit 0.0.5, you can get the source from the Google Code Page.

Right before the release I was working on trying to get windows/tabs opened by Javascript to work, but the changes were getting to the point of creating a lot of extra complexity and even then it was causing other functionality to result in seg faults so I ended up just reverting all the changes. Later I'll have to think some more about a better design that'll be able to handle this situation (unfortunately signals can't have a return value which I had forgotten).

Depending on how long that takes it might just be a release just on it's own, or if it's easier than I expect I might also work on trying to get error pages to work properly then release 0.0.6. For 0.1.0 I wanna get both the javascript tabs/windows working properly and error pages working okay, along with a couple more things I think up along the way.

Edit: Finishing the cmake files so that it'll actually install would be a good thing to also do :P Shouldn't really be that hard, just take some time looking through the documentation or some other project's files at worst.

Getting close to 0.0.5, my first bugfix!

First Fix from the Google Code Issue Tracker

So last night I noticed that I had the first issue added to my Google Code page for Foxkit (from someone other than me). The issue was about nothing happening if trying to browse to a website that used a self signed SSL certificate, so I fired up Foxkit and (surprisingly) found normal SSL websites worked, although going to my personal website's SSL version didn't work (the cert if for a different domain than mine, the domain of my hosting provider which the SSL version simply redirects you to).

I looked around the docs for QtWebKit and quickly found out what signal I needed to connect to, and posted a reply to the issue saying what all I figured I'd need to do to properly support SSL errors, then went to bed. Some time after waking up this morning I decided to get to work on SSL error handling, and before long had a version that'd work with my website (although I couldn't think up of any self-signed sites to test it on) and commited a fix that'd add the basic support needed, and followed on the Issue tracker marking it as Fixed (but not Verified) about 14 hours later. All-in-all, I think 14 hours is a pretty good turn around.

(no one mention that I only noticed the bug report a month and 13 days after it was posted :P I didn't think about the fact that I wouldn't be notified when issues were added so wasn't watching it!)

Approaching 0.0.5!

So I'm quickly approaching what I want for the next release, and actually really have everything I set out for when I readjusted my goals with the first post. I'm planning on making the release by Friday at the latest, but hopefully will get it out early in the week. If it wasn't so annoying to create the tarball with all the things I needed and only the things needed I'd probably make the release now... but I guess I'm just trying to push that off for a little bit :P

So far I'm extremely with how Foxkit is shaping up, this is the first project I've seriously worked on and kept up with, I've ran into lots of problems, including a nasty memory leak/crash thats been around and known since the first release or so and finally was fixed yesterday, and have learned quite a bit about problem solving, software development, C++, Qt, KDE, and that I could actually do this. After the 0.0.5 release I'm wanting to add support for alternative cookie jars, as right now they'd be extremely useful for me, having to manage multiple Google accounts is a bit of a pain in the you-know-where.

New Blog, Foxkit's current status

It has been quite a while since I last made a release of Foxkit (KDE-Apps page, Google Project's Download Page), but the Git repository is still alive! I've done quite a bit of development since the 0.0.2 release, including adding support for Cookies (and the start of support for multiple cookie jars), better tab handling, massive amount of code cleanups, and lots of other things I long since forgot.

I'm hoping to release the next version of Foxkit sometime next week, probably with a 0.0.5 version number. So far I've done a pretty lousy job of following my roadmap, but hopefully in the future I'll be more flexible with it, and maybe try to switch to time-based releases (maybe once a month?). I've decided the only show stopper for the next release will be to have Foxkit's cookies stored in a better place than /dev/shm (generally a tmpfs filesystem on Linux... trashed when the system reboots), theres probably a KDE directory that stuff like thats supposed to go into. After this next release I'm wanting to add support to query Solid to check to see if the network is up or not, as well as add error pages (silent errors are evil!).

Edit: Just commented the change to use KStandardDirs::locateLocal("appdata", "cookies.db"); instead of /dev/shm/cookies.db :P