Hi Michael On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:23:52 +0100, Michael Drake wrote:
> I'm planning to post a news update on the web site, covering all the > recent developments. It would be helpful if you could let me know the > current status of these ports so that I can briefly describe the progress > that's been made. > > Really, I want to know if they are at a usable state or if they can just > fetch and render a page but not much else or whatever. Sadly I don't have > the OSes to test them myself. The AmigaOS port currently runs only on AmigaOS 4.x, it is somewhat useable but an unresolved system freeze makes using it feel more like playing Russian Roulette :) Most of the graphics rendering is working, text needs a bit of work as it just prints UTF-8 to the screen without converting it, forms only work in specific circumstances. You can open URLs, and open links in same or a new window (middle mouse click). Frames are a bit iffy and everything else (downloads, bookmarks etc) is unimplemented. For some reason since I changed to using Hubbub, I get loads of Javascript printed out on web pages as well (IGN is a prime example). > Also, it would be great to get a couple of screenshots of the current > state of the BeOS and AmigaOS ports. For the screenshots page the > screenshots need to be exactly 1004x780px. That's a bit of a problem as my monitor only goes up to 1024x768. Here are a couple of screenshots in that resolution: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cdyoung/tmp/netsurf1.jpg (BBC News) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cdyoung/tmp/netsurf2.jpg (Wikipedia) > Also, for general interface, I'm not sure if you have access to the GTK or > RISC OS ports, but it would be nice to have some constancy across all > platforms. I have an AmigaOS port of the GTK version I can use for reference, and I can run the RISC OS one under emulation (slowly). > The main browser window aims to be as lightweight as possible, taking as > little space up with toolbars and status bars as possible. This is to > allow the maximum amount of screen to be used for the important bit, the > web pages. I've largely followed that, except the throbber isn't implemented yet, and the status bar is a separate gadget above the horizontal scroll bar. Moving the status bar into the window border is something I'll look at much further down the line as, although I know it is possible (TurboCalc manages it perfectly), I don't know how to achieve it. Chris
