Modern web browser for 68k amigas?

[matthey]

amiga4ever wrote:
Processing the HTML tags alone in a lot of today's "modern" websites would push even a 060

Wrong! AWeb on my '060 Amiga is about as fast as Firefox on my Pentium 4 Mobile laptop. That includes picture loading and Javascript at the same time. Loading on Firefox is "usually" faster but then there are times when the machine and browser are completely unresponsive for several seconds. This never happens on the Amiga. Sometimes slower but consistent wins the race.

i can tell you that, having worked a little on "a" 68k browser engine myself :-)

Then you didn't know how to program! I have an Amiga with a fast browser right here and it only takes one exception to prove you wrong. I hope you find my response as annoying as I found yours.

[matthey]

brianb wrote:
I found browsing using AWeb on my A1200 w/ '030 at 50MHz a painful experience.  But it was fun to setup...

I find it interesting to see the positive results with people using an '060.  Makes me wonder about future upgrades...

I've used AWeb and Ibrowse running on a 2000 with 030@50MHz, and CV64/3D and thought it was pretty usable speed. AGA is very slow compared to a gfx card and eats cpu time. My main Amiga uses a CSMK3 68060@75MHz + Voodoo4/FastEthernet + 15k Ultra SCSI HD. I have some of AWeb, like the image decoders, compiled for the 68060 but not the main program yet. I think a fair amount more speed can be found in the code as well. I do believe a well written clean browser with most modern browser support (like CSS) is capable of running on high end classic Amigas with good speed.