Mozilla on Amiga

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A person on #amiga.org@irc.webchat.org (guest user nick) asked if anyone had Moz for the Amiga yet. I mentioned that there were a couple of false starts on the conversion, but that nothing became of it. He replied that it actually DOES exist, and is available from someone in Germany. When I querried where to get it, I got no responce.

I then proceeded on over to MozAmiga and got the same old info thats been there forever (being ported to AmigaDE, blah blah blah).

The question is: Is Mozilla available for AmigaOS, or did my chain just get pulled? :-?

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Speaking of which, Apple have just released a new open source browser called Safari fo OS-X. Seeing as its based on kHTML (part of KDE) would that be an easier port than Mozilla?

From what I have can tell, the way they were able to port it was with the help of X11 for MacOS X, which is fully integrated into Aqua, and uses Quartz for rendering, so any X11 app can now use the Aqua interface.

To port it to AmigaOS would require the use of either Holger Kruse's X11 port, or Dale Luck/GFXbase's port, neither of which are available/being sold at the moment.

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Holger Kruse's X11 port, called AmiWin, is _available_. You can use it ... you just can't register it because Holger has been unresponsive to the Amiga community since he went to work at REBOL. I don't know what limitations it has without registration, but it seems to work perfectly fine for me when connecting to UNIX servers at work from my home.

I know its available from his website, but the registered version is not available, which is supposed to have extended funtionality. Plus, it does need updating.

As far as Mozilla being available _right now_ for Amiga, that user on IRC was pulling your chain.

Well, your _right now_ statement make me think that you know something the rest of us don't :-). Do you know of anyone actively porting Mozilla to AmigaOS?

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X11 is not built into Aqua, it is a sepeate download (Apple are beta testing thier own version now) Safari does not require X11 (I'm running it now - not bad).

This is true. It was just announced and released at MWSF. I thought they used it to port Konquerer. Are you sure a verison isn't included with Safari?