[adamjs]

Hi there, author of UL and Awesomium here.

We didn't abandon anything, we announced to the community that we were stopping development of Awesomium (our previous Chromium fork), are going to build something new (which turned out to be UL, I wrote the rationale elsewhere in this thread), and continued to support our paid customers for years after (all licenses came with a 1 year annual support contract with option to renew, we would be in contract violation if we didn't).

We did stop maintaining the free online support community which I think is where this sentiment came form. Users were upset that there were no new versions of Awesomium and there was a 4 year gap before the first alpha of Ultralight was released which left a number of users rightfully annoyed.

I personally couldn't promise that were _would_ be a successor project since Ultralight was so experimental (the GPU renderer alone took about 4 years to get working on all platforms). That lack of communication and subsequent gap in updates is what led users to believe the project was abandonware (luckily, I'm here to say it isn't and we're still alive!).

FWIW, Ultralight was actually built in tandem using internal feedback from our existing customers. Many of our current users are ex-Awesomium users.

[qppo]

Thanks for the clarification!