> The main things are to update the downloads and documentation
> sections to
> properly reflect NetSurf being multi-platform.

I usually put the work in progress builds as
http://revolf.free.fr/beos/netsurf-bone.zip
for now.

> For the documentation, I'd like to make the user guide more multi
> platform, but it will probably take me a long time. I can easily use
> the
> RISC OS and GTK versions. Is there any easy way for me to test the
> AmigaOS
> and BeOS versions? Are there live CDs or emulators and is it trivial
> to
> run the NetSurf ports on such a system?

You can try the pre-alpha Haiku image in qemu/vmware:
http://www.haiku-os.org/downloads

As for the doc under BeOS, the convention is to use html anyway.

> It would be good to get the platform specific installation
> instructions
> and details platform specific issues for all platforms in similar
> documents. Each platform specific download page can link to the
> relevant
> user info page.

Currently it must be unzipped to /boot and I should probably add a
symlink to avoid making one manually in ~/config/be/Applications I
suppose.

> Finally, I'd like to update the About NetSurf section to make it
> clear
> NetSurf runs on all sorts of platforms and systems. At the moment
> that
> page/area is a bit dry, but I think it can be livened up with things
> like
> a photo of NetSurf running on a snazzy handheld gadget with a caption
> below, kind of like the front page screenshot.

If you come on #haiku and ask I'm sure someone with an eeePC can make
you a photo of it running NS in Haiku :)

> Also, I want to update the NetSurf team page:
>
>     http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/team
>
> Please could the Chris, François and Vincent give me a couple of
> paragraphs, like the ones already there, about which bit of NetSurf
> you
> work on, what system you use, etc. :)

What about:

François is a BeOS fan and Haiku developer, and started porting NetSurf
to BeOS to fill the void between Links and Firefox, and replace the
closed-source NetPositive as default browser in Haiku.
He's always rushing to fix C89 breakages since BeOS binaries must be
built using gcc 2.95 because of C++ ABI compatibility. Currently
building under ZETA (BeOS R6), and testing also under Haiku both on
real hardware and in QEMU.

François.

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