NetSurf's Development Team
James Bursa
- First check in: 22 April 2002
- IRC name: zamez, SVN name: bursa
John-Mark Bell
John-Mark spends most of his time avoiding the layout engine, as he thinks that overexposure to it will result in the early onset of dementia. Over the years, he has contributed to a number of areas of NetSurf – particularly anything that doesn't involve touching any user interface code. He has also spent a great deal of time tracking down and fixing Richard's bugs.
In the past, most of his development work was undertaken on an Iyonix, using a Linux desktop running Debian for compilation purposes. Nowadays, development occurs on the Linux desktop using RPCemu for testing purposes.
- First check in: 25 May 2003
- IRC name: jmb, SVN name: jmb
Michael Drake
Michael contributes to several areas of the project: documentation, the project web site, testing and graphics work. He designs promotional material such as posters and banners, as well as toolbar and interface icons. Michael likes to be involved with planning the design of NetSurf's user interface. Recently he has started to develop NetSurf itself, and is particularly interested in the layout code.
Michael uses an Iyonix for most of his work on the NetSurf project. He also has a VirtualRPC Laptop for testing on RISCOS Ltd's brand of RISC OS and an Ubuntu machine for playing with nsgtk.
- First check in: 26 September 2003
- IRC name: tlsa, SVN name: tlsa
Richard Wilson
When he finds time away from his day job as an international man of mystery, Richard enjoys flailing his arms towards a keyboard and trying to make NetSurf as beautiful as the contours of a Cuban virgin's thighs.
He is responsible for implementing various sections of NetSurf – the ones he'll admit to include GIF, BMP and ICO support, the current frames implementation, minor sections of the CSS and layout code, the hotlist and global history, toolbars and themes, URL auto-completion, buffered rendering, interactive help, the RISC OS GUI and image rendering code, RISC OS image virtual memory / compression, and probably 90% of the bugs.
Unfortunately Richard has had precious little time for development work recently, but an aged RiscPC is his partner when he does.
- First check in: 9 March 2004
- IRC name: rjwii, SVN name: rjw
John Tytgat
John is an occasional NetSurf contributor mostly related to cross-compile build aspects based on his knowledge and involvement in the GCCSDK project and OSLib OSLib. He also contributed the first Unicode related changes in NetSurf.
His RISC OS NetSurf builds are done using the GCCSDK cross-compiler on an Ubuntu Linux desktop machine and tested on RiscPC and A9home.
- First check in: 1 May 2004
- IRC name: joty, SVN name: joty
Adrian Lees
- First check in: 25 March 2005
- IRC name: adrianl, SVN name: adrianl
Daniel Silverstone
- First check in: 9 March 2006
- IRC name: Kinnison, SVN name: dsilvers
Rob Kendrick
Rob contributes mainly to the GTK port of NetSurf, and helping with general portability issues between platforms. He wrote the Cairo rendering back end which gives the GTK port anti-aliased rendering, as well as devising the new themes format. Also some other minor contributions to the main base of the code.
Rob does most of his development work on his Linux desktop running Ubuntu, and also makes extensive use of an A9home for testing. He also helps maintain the server that hosts the project's web site and mailing lists.
- First check in: 13 March 2006
- IRC name: rjek, SVN name: rjek