We need an iBrowse replacement for 68k!!!

[wawrzon]

btw, netsurf depends on picasso96api.library, which will be only available on p96 systems. would probably be better to make it compatible with cgx3 as p96 and everything else is compatible to this quasi standard.

[wawrzon]

It should work on AGA. It doesn't require P96 although it will try to open P96 library and continue if it fails. Actually the OS3 build doesn't use P96 at all at the moment. I'll try enabling it once I have the 8-bit bitmaps displaying properly.

ah, okay, thx for clarification, trying to run it under aros therefore noticed it at all.

[wawrzon]

i disabled rtg on my uae and it is working on aga i would say even better than on rtg. i cant catch a screenshot atm, but for instance on aorg its showing the main banner correctly dithered to 256 colors.thare are other glitches though, but nothing worse than rtg.

[wawrzon]

what concerns aros68k have been copying classes and gadgets to it resolving start issues one by one, but im stuck with getfile.gadget, that somehow refuses to get recognized. i wonder if the necessary classes couldnt be reverse engineered or opened up..

[wawrzon]

amiga.org may be a tricky site. would be good if someone tested it in paralell with netsurf for other platforms to m make sure its amiga frontend problems we are seeing.

[wawrzon]

no, afair the message means simply that it cannot open any such library whatever version number.

if there is a build to test i could give it a go soon.

[wawrzon]

@chris
good news, the colors look right, but depending on complexity the site either looks right (netsurf, google), almost right (a1k, aw.net) or rather messed up (aorg).
attaching screenshots in a minute, (the forum ate my post from the amiga side)


a simpler page to see the gfx problems in detail:


here under the upper edge you see artifacts, as result of scrolling:

[wawrzon]

to be honest i wasnt much aware of both problems you mention up till now. well, i notice that sometimes few bits and pieces of previous page appear here and there after navigating further even now, what concerns status bar i dont even know where to look for it. the upper half of upper frame gets over imposed with some text from somewhere else. im sure under os4 the issue gets mashed by decoration, as i know very same issues on aros. btw have used netsurf to download your file, which worked very well.

[wawrzon]

@utri007

did you give it enough stack?

[wawrzon]

i dont think it is random. i started an a1200 emu /040/32mb accel ram and netsurf refuses to initialize. nothing wrong in serial log, will enable snoopdos and muforce if necessary to see if it catches anything. perhaps an alignment issue?

edit: looks like 32mb with os3.9 may not be enough as less than 20mb remains available after full boot here, 64mb might be necessary, tested with mmu, muforce and without jit. have no 1200 romat hand, but i think that this is the issue.

funny enough os3.9 seems to have more ram consumption than aros68k while lacking its features.

[wawrzon]

sorry chris, couldnt open the archive, produced errors, im a bit tired now, maybe tomorrow. i forgot to mention you cannot quit netsurf, neither in menu nor closing window.

[wawrzon]

sorry chris, have been testing the new archive but have no definite result to report yet, as to where the problem might be. im not at my studio now, but i might test in uae tomorrow or on real hardware if i get back to it. hold on.

[wawrzon]

i didnt test quitting till lately, so i cant say it was possible previously, still it definitely didnt worked with the last one. matt, have you test it, since it may been the case all along and not being a new bug?

[wawrzon]

i just put a network card again in my a4k/060/mediator box. loading time till gui along with checking fonts which i have plenty is acceptable.
however the actual build of netsurf doesnt seem to load fully. the gui seems to work, i can type into an addres field and invoke menus, but neither seem to have any effect. i cant though resize window. must retest in uae..

is there an option not to run netsurf on separate screen? this annoys me.

[wawrzon]

just tested the fresh download under uae. same result as on real hardware. not dependant on resolution or color depth. do you guys are able to interact with the browser your place? log needed?

[wawrzon]

strangely under uae muforce doesnt detect any hits (mmu on, jit disabled). probably proves again that testing on real hw is more reliable. must check with my a4k again.