Re: [MiNT] This must be an gcc / ld error!

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Stefan Niestegge <beetle@abbuc.de> wrote:
> Am 29.05.2010 00:43, schrieb Ole Loots:
>>
>> Am Fr, 28.05.2010, 23:26 schrieb Jo Even Skarstein:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I just tested NetSurf on Ubuntu btw, and I'm afraid I was quite
>>> disappointed :( There are a lot of rendering errors. Quite a bit better
>>> than Links, but not good enough to be of real use. Even sites like
>>> atari-forum.com isn't rendered correctly.
>>>
>>> Jo Even
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> what do you mean by saying "There are a lot of rendering errors" ? I
>> tested it with Ubuntu ( not the SDL port, but GTK2) and it looked very
>> well. Maybe there were some small errors ( looked like some elements
>> needed some more spacing...), but the pages looked very well.
>>
>> Currently I can't try atari-forum.com because installing the netsurf svn
>> framebuffer version changed some dependencies.... but forum.atari-home.de
>> looked well ( and some other pages, too).
>>
>> What do you mean by saying "quite a bit better than links" - Links has no
>> images, links is a text browser, ...., thats a big difference :)
>>
>> After all I don't target the SDL-framebuffer version, If possible, I would
>> like to see an GEM port...  But I think that doesn't matter for pure
>> rendering issues...
>>
>>
>
> Ole, Jo and other talk about the Links port that Didier made and has on his
> site, and that one is a graphical browser with images.
>
> Give it a go!
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
>
Link can be compiled with several "enhancements", and there are a
couple of different ways it can be done, one using x11, one using
frame buffer. One of those uses SDL..

It is no longer restricted to TEXT ONLY rendering, but it is generally
compiled that way for most distros

Paul