Still has that unnecessary bar along the side, still has very un-Amiga-like horrible looking drop down menus attached to the top of the window, and yes, it's still just crappy, bloated Firefox, the browser that runs like a snail on a 1.6Ghz Linux PC. I can't imagine how slow it'll be on a 600Mhz Sam. They do claim to want to fix these things for Timbrewolf... yet with each new screenshot they leak, it still looks the same.
But look, the screenshots weren't to show off their progress on porting this Linux software to their OS, it's to show off their overhyped new project, or at least tease people about it and get their hopes up that it's actually something impressive.
The bar down the side is just an intuition thing. You either specify the resize window gadget to be on the side or underneath. This can be changed, and from what I've gathered, it will be changed.. but its not a high priority..
The un amiga like menus are there because they're porting the browser first (using the built in GUI?) and then making it Amiga like as soon as they can afterwards..
I'm with you in assuming it will be slower than IBrowse and AWeb due to being more than a text editor with inline images, but I seriously doubt it will be unusable in terms of speed.
You complain that a screenshot doesnt show anything new.. how can a picture show a gethostbyname() race condition bugfix?? or whatever it was they were doing.. how can a picture show newly added hardware accelerated scrolling??
How can you call it Linux software? it runs on Windows and Mac too. Programming languages, dependencies, source code, blah blah, its getting harder to say something belongs to one platform. if it builds and runs on another system with a native GUI, then...??
But yes, I agree.. it WAS an advertising gimmick for their "most ambitious project". and I love it.
I mean, each Amiga platform has its strengths, and thats why we're all splintered and using something different to chat with WookieChat on (cough), but I wish people would stop sneering at the "other sides". I'm sorry people have a go at you on IRC for not wanting or being able to afford an expensive Sam though.. I dont want to come across as being one of those guys.
