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Re: [MiNT] www-browser engines



Am 31.05.2010 18:29, schrieb Patrice Mandin:
Le Sat, 29 May 2010 18:48:00 +0000 (GMT)
Peter Slegg<p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>  a écrit:

On Sat, 29 May 2010 19:37:29 , Jo Even Skarstein<joska@online.no>  wrote:
On 05/29/2010 03:05 PM, Ole Loots wrote:

I thought the WebKit page is somewhat confusing... and I couldn't get an
quick overview about the situation on how it would be portable to other
platforms. It seems to be more complex...
Check the Origyn website. It has a good porting guide. Porting it to GEM
seems to be doable.

http://www.sand-labs.org/owb/wiki/OwbalPortingGuide

I should also have a look at the Origyn webbrowser,... But it seems
webkits porting requires a lot more coding just for a PoC... Maybe that's
not true for SDL framebuffer ports...?
I would guess that the Origyn SDL-target is quite similar to NetSurf
when it comes to porting. It would be interesting to do both and compare
them.

Jo Even
I downloaded the source this morning, it's huge, and I think it is
all C++.

Peter
I tried to port owb for MiNT some weeks ago, and was blocked due to
missing functions in math library. I compiled the minimal needed libs
that it depends on (curl, sdl_gfx, libxml2, libpng).

There are also some issues with Perl usage to generate some source
files, and you must patch owb to not build shared libraries. And I
don't talk about possible problems with C++; should be OK if g++ 4.x
builds correct code.

What about adding a "OWB MiNT port project" to atariforge and work together? From my viewpoint there are several people in the scene that are technically able to do it, but its probably too much work for one person.

A decent browser is really a very important application an OS that wants to be used needs. Even if not really fast as Highwire in the end, think of people using upcoming Firebee or Aranym. For lower speed Ataris like TT or stock Falcons (yeah or even just an ST) we have Highwire.

Please, go for it, it will be worth the work, and don't forget there is some cash to make for that person or group that offers a (port of) Browser that is usable for everyday usage and runs on MiNT.

Greetings,
Beetle