does OS4 carry a decent browser?

[Matt_H]

Having recently had the opportunity to try Voyager under MOS, it is my opinion that it has not aged well. The MUI4 incompatibilities are severe, almost crippling of the GUI. IBrowse's JavaScript implementation appears to be mostly current as of last year, and its Flash plugin is pretty much on par with Voyager's, as far as level of Flash version implementation goes. Voyager does have the APDF plugin, which is nice, but it's obsolete compared to the latest standalone version from the MOS FTP.

It'd probably require the same amount of work as AWeb or IBrowse to get it up to standards compliance, but given that its development seems completely dormant (rather than just painfully slow), it doesn't seem likely to happen.

[Matt_H]

uncharted wrote:
@Itix & Matt_H

Does MUI4 break existing apps?

Voyager is the only program I've had severe problems with. In fact, I haven't noticed any problems with anything else.

There's a slight quirk with IBrowse in that large text entry boxes (like the ones used to compose messages here at AO and elsewhere) use a non-standard custom class which ends up having an unreadable black-on-black color scheme when not selected. Once selected, it's perfectly legible, though. Normal string boxes don't have this problem. I could probably solve it by fiddling with the MUI settings a bit, but it hasn't bothered me enough to do so.

[Matt_H]

Framiga wrote:
you can change the background colours in String> "Container" and "...activated" (note that you will need to iconify IB and de-iconify IB to see the changes ... at least here)

Nope, that's only for short string boxes, like the subject heading, that were already working correctly. IBrowse has a custom class called IBTextEditField.ibcc with no associated prefs class, so there'd have to be a global prefs change to correct it.

The default MUI settings in the PowerUp version are okay, however.

[Matt_H]

proper support for plugins would be nice, if you like Flash on your websites...

It's got support now, but the associated SDK hasn't been released. I really hope they get on that, I'd imagine we'd see some pretty cool things.