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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 2:52:34
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| Nice interview. 
Although I wish everyone was on the same team pulling together.
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 6:58:57
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| Rob Norris is the man !
Good luck to him
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 13:20:44
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| Does that mean if for some reason the port and development of a complete up to date browser for AROS end up being successful that it will be easily portable in the future for OS 4.0 and OS 3.x for classic Amiga? |
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 14:20:11
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| foody:
probably, yes.
the OWB browser use webkit aswell, and is more portable i think.
afxgroup has managed to compile it for os4 (but the screen/output is black)
maybe this would be a better codebase?
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 16:00:33
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| Seeing as the code would essentially be AOS 3.x API complaint since this is what AROS strives to be, all that should be needed is a recompile of the relevent code for Classic 68k AOS 3.x systems, which could then possibly be either ported to AOS4 or possibly run under the AOS4 68k emulator. This is the beauty of AROS and open source projects for AROS, they can be easily ported/recompiled by anyone and everyone in the community on just about any Amiga platform can benefit from it.
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 15-Nov-2007 20:48:47
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| I'm not as optimistic on that point: AROS aims at being compatible with OS 3.1 but that doesn't mean that AROS doesn't go further... and indeed Robert Norris has already increased the mlib functions for having the WebKit JavaScript engine to work.
In fact Traveller will hopefully work... on AROS 68k (hence another interest in the Kickstart replacement bounties). Last edited by Ball000 on 15-Nov-2007 at 08:53 PM.
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 16-Nov-2007 9:49:46
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 17-Nov-2007 9:28:30
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Seeing as the code would essentially be AOS 3.x API complaint since this is what AROS strives to be
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AROS being API compatible with Kickstart 3.1 does not mean it can not have its own API extensions.
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all that should be needed is a recompile of the relevent code for Classic 68k AOS 3.x systems
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Nevertheless porting should be easy. However it is at least 6 months until you see anything useful on AROS, 12 months until you see usable browser. There is an incredible amount of small details needed in a browser.
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Re: AROS Web Browser Interview with Rob Norris
Posted on 18-Nov-2007 18:31:48
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| aros is starting to look better than OS4, i wish we could all be on the same team too but unfortunately humans are too arrogant...
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