We need an iBrowse replacement for 68k!!!

[whabang]

May I ask what you intend to do with a modern browser on a 50-100 MHz machine? It's not like it's powerful enough to do much with a modern JS engine anyway.

Personally, I believe porting a more simple browser like Dillo would make more sense...

[whabang]

Most resent FPGA 68K cores deliver performance in many areas in the range of 500 MHz 68030 CPU or more.

Running a bit more demanding applications is working better now.

Ah, of course. I'd forgotten about those. That makes it a little more viable.

[whabang]

Will Netsurf work on a plain A1200 with 4 MB fast RAM?

It's situations like that where I believe a Dillo port would be more suited. I'd suggest you try, but I think you'll run out of RAM very quickly.

[whabang]

It rather makes me think open sorceing Ibrowse would be a good idea. Netsurf might be better for beefier Amigas, but lets not forget about the ones with slower machines.

I agree. I doubt the Ibrowse authors feel like going open-source just like that, though. If you can convince them, then do it.

If not, then there are a few light-weight alternatives available. Dillo would be the best bet, as I see it.

[whabang]

Yep it's a nice idea but it would be tons of work.

If you were going to do that you might as well return the page as basic HTML and just do all of the JavaScript/Flash/HTML 5 processing on the server.

I think a native port of NetSurf would be the best idea at this stage.

Like Opera Mini? Not a bad idea. It would allow existing browsers to keep working, and could adjust the amount of crunching done on the capabilities of the used browser.

But yeah, a lot of work.

[whabang]

Well, there's always Lynx, Links and w3m.