NetSurf OS3.x Issues

[fishy_fiz]

Not really sure what to advise here, but Arti's port of Netsurf works fine for me. By far and away the best browser for 68k amigas.
Chris's version is thus far next to unusable, but hopefully one day usability will be up to that of Arti's version.

Chances are you'll hear a bunch of crap about "sdl framebuffer, non-gui, debug, etc." while enquiring about 68k Netsurf. Ignore it. It'll come from Chris, who obviously is going to promote his own version, and from other people who don't really understand what theyre talking about parroting him. Ask said people what those terms even mean, or how they influence (or not) things and they wont be able to answer you (sans Chris, who understands, but twists and contorts truths so as to promote his own version), but give it a little time and they'll be parroting again  :-)

All in all though it's not a very good browser anyway compared to pretty much everything out there, but if you want a no frills, basic browser that renders partway correctly it's ok. Don't expect to be able to do even simple stuff like uploading images though. A complete lack of javascript makes these things nigh on impossible. Even 68k OWB is more capable.

[fishy_fiz]

How about something like ELynx?
After roughly an hours work I've got a mostly working 68k binary.
Supports CSS and JavaScript, has a download manager, and is pretty quick. Seems a better match than Netsurf for "real" amigas (and is more capable in many ways too).
Sidebar, but take those RiscOS netsurf requirements with a grain of salt. They're akin to saying Quake will run on an '020+FPU+8meg. Technically true, but far from usable.

If anyone is interested, for a few donations I can polish up and release elynx (after initial test bins are released of course). Failing that it'll just get thrown on the "good enough for my own use" pile.
I'm pretty content with 68k OWB and Arti's Netsurf port myself, but am willing to spend some more time on it for a little bit of money.

[fishy_fiz]

Yeah, I knew I had the spelling wrong, just couldn't recall what it was, so I took a stab in the dark :-)
Anyway, I'd meant Elinks. Which I see now checking the site appears not to have been updated for about 3 years. Not uncommon for a projects website to go unmaintained though while there's activity in its source repository.

As for sharing what I've done, there's really nothing much to share. I just looked through my source code archive on my computer looking for something interesting to port to os3.x/aros. It seems nicely portable and thus far its mostly been getting my dev env up to scratch to get it to build. Having said that though I actually looked at this a few years ago, so there's a chance I'd already started the process back then and forgot (my dev env is full of assorted libs and headers Ive added over the years). Things may not have gone so smoothly on a "clean" (if there's such a thing) os3.x gcc+bin utils setup.

Anyway, Im having fun with this, so I'll release stuff as I go along. If people decide its worth a few dollars in donations here and there then that's just a bonus.

I get distracted easily, so lord knows how far I'll take this, but it's sort of surprising no-one ever attacked the 68k browser problem from the "bare bones start, add stuff as needed/wanted" type angle before.