IBrowse FAQ

[xeron]

What they are making for 3.0 was things i was EXPECTING in 2.3 this is really bad but what could you expect?

I'm sorry? You were EXPECTING CSS and PPC for 2.3? No wonder you were disappointed...

As for the guy with the lame parody of the FAQ, they said PPC and CSS would be available for IBrowse 3.0, and they didn't say "we'll never get rich like that", they said "Steffan doesn't expect anything for 2.3, its a free upgrade for 2.2 users".

[xeron]

I think nowadays browser is quite essential part of OS

You know what? Browsers are not an essential part of an OS. Neither are super-mediaplayers, games, a cd full of skins, or instant messenger clients. Although, I'm sure MS don't agree :-)

Browsers are an essential thing to have available FOR an OS, however..

[xeron]

But then I dont understand why the Aos4 version is not a full version. If the reason is not for the individual user to buy a full version then please enlighten me

IBrowse 2.3 is free if you are a registered IBrowse user. Sounds fair to me.

Oh what, so because they don't give away their hard work for free to people who have never paid to use IBrowse, they are greedy money grabbing people intent on getting rich? Pleeeease! How is anyone ever going to get rich from writing Amiga apps?

[xeron]

I'm a little confused, so I was hoping someone would help me out here.
Since there isn't going to be a PPC version of IBrowse, what does that mean? Isn't the AmigaOne going to be PPC? If this is just a 68k version, then it will just run on classic hardware? Does that mean there will not be a browser that runs on the AmigaOne?

IBrowse 2.3 will be a 680x0 application that will run natively on classic Amigas, and under the petunia 68k emulation layer of OS4.

You probably won't even be able to tell is 68k when running under OS4, though. IBrowse is a very fast browser as it is...

[xeron]

It looks real good for outsiders when they hear that the browser comming with the OS is just running under emulation! what it Apple was to do the same? i can see the headlines now.

But Amiga is not Apple, OS4 is at best a hobby OS, and to an Amiga newbie, they wouldn't even KNOW it was emulated.

Just be pleased that that all 3 of the main Amiga browsers are actually BEING developed! For a while it looked like we were going to be stuck with AWeb 3.3 and IBrowse 2.2!

PPC and CSS is promised for both AWeb and IBrowse, but it is a very big task to get these done, especially by such small teams!

The authors of these browsers don't owe us ANYTHING! They are doing what they can for the remaining Amiga community, and I salute them.