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Offline mrad

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Re: Porting Opera or Firefox to the Amiga
« on: September 19, 2007, 07:10:16 PM »
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Opera isn't open source anyway, so it cannot just be "ported".

Ah, but Opera *Mini* is a Java app.  A reasonably complete Java Virtual Machine could do it.  I know Tao did a lot of work on this, but I am not aware of anything being released that could run on Classic Amiga, or for that matter, at all.

Java never caught on as a super-duper web scripting language (it was supplanted by server-side code driving AJAX, a library kit that papers over all the brain damage in MS IE), but it does seem to be successful for cross-platform apps (it papers over the brain damage in Win32).  It sure would be nice to run a java-based Palm-pilot suite or Quicken clone (called Moneydance) on AmigaOS.