OmniWeb 2.0, bundles, and Java

[William Shipley]

Thanks for the clarification.

The OmniWeb library will still turn into a framework, as well the imaging  
stuff.  This framework will load bundles from certain directories when it is  
started up, allowing the user to augment it.

Our notion is that if we make, for instance, the imaging code be a  
framework, then not only will all apps be able to understand all image  
formats (as they can with OmniImageFilter), but they'll also be able to do  
image translation in their own address space without the yuckiness of a  
filter invocation.  (One problem with filters: no good feedback if they've  
crashed, so you have to set some arbitrary timeout.  But, since you don't  
know how long it may take to view an image, the timeout has to be fairly  
long.)

-Wil