Odyssey Web Browser Public Source Code Repository

[BSzili]

The solution is to find someone who is capable and willing to fix JavaScriptCore to work on big endian processors again, and pay him to do it if necessary. This could be done on Linux or Mac OS X, so he won't even need OS4 or MorphOS to do the job.

[BSzili]

It might be worth looking outside the community, like they did for the H.264 altivec optimizations.

[BSzili]

Odyssey is not the only option per se, but the question remains the same: who is going to do the work?

[BSzili]

Netsurf is great for platforms with limited resources, but hardly suitable for modern browsing needs. For example the JavaScript support is still in its infancy, it has no support for HTML5 video, etc. On NG it would be a huge step backwards even compared the outdated Odyssey 1.23.

[BSzili]

It is step backwards, thats true. Just wondering these endian issues, if webkit team is not going to fix it and they do have a attitude that it doesn't matter? Does it mean that these problems are increasing in future? These kind of projects tends to be single person projects in amiga land. ?

May I ask why have you given up on Odyssey so easily? :confused: If you can't even find someone to fix JavaScriptCore, do you think you'll find someone to develop NetSurf into a modern browser, which is at least an order of magnitude more work? What you are saying is the equivalent of buying a new house, because the window previous one got broken.