Hi Colin,


> Still OB could stand to be a lot more flexible, and I'm sure it would 
> benefit from being stretched to accommodate your "special" browsers.

yes, this is also my impression.


> One thing that will help is the recent shift to using OBBuilder 
> subclasses to create visual elements of the UI. Right now it uses a 
> fairly simple layout scheme, but that could be extended to handle more 
> complex layouts.

ok, I will have a deeper look at that to see what is possible, thanks!

> I'm currently 
> involved in a rather hairy refactoring of the very core of OB, to reduce 
> the coupling between OBColumn and it's collaborators, and this will 
> allow columns to be composed differently from the current left-to-right 
> convention.

ah, these are very good news, I'm really looking forward to that!

> Tell me, are you using the latest versions of OB from 
> http://source.wiresong.ca? 

Yes, I started my work with version cwp.317 of OmniBrowser. I'm now trying to merge 
with the latest version of OB, but this is a bit of work... ;)

> Once
> the core refactorings are finished, I'll be taking stock of what needs
> to be done for a 2.0 release, so the "latest and greatest" OB browsers
> can be put into wider use.

Excellent, I appreciate!

Kind regards,
David