IBrowse 2.5 finally on its way?

[wawrzon]

The first web page to look at with it will of course be amiga.org

it wont render without css.

ibrowse may be able to show aw.net, amiga-news.de and aminet, but thats probably about it. sorry to say.

[wawrzon]

okay, it might be good for remainig handful amiga sites without css or those few available via a proxy rendering their layout to simple graphics of html2 or so, but it wont be an internet browser any close to be applicable for general usage. which is fine as far as everybody realizes it.

[wawrzon]

double post while editing..

[wawrzon]

Sites aren't automatically unusable just because a browser doesn't support CSS. Anyone who's used IBrowse 2.4 knows that. Of course, it won't make sites look any better, but that's a different story.

it wasnt nitpicking. do you think this approach is practical? or at least practicable?

[wawrzon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaJR_zsq3Ns

exactly.

[wawrzon]

Until someone writes a really well designed and well optimized browser for 68k (way, way beyond IBrowse), it's the best we've got.

none will do that. as you see even ibrowse autors struggle to implement any features needed to day. the solution is to use existing open engines with an amiga gui or let it be. im fine with either.

Ugly isn't the same as unusable.

i think i have spente enough time trying to figure out what ibrowse or aweb have rendered in front of me, to say it is not a question of aesthetics, but ergonomy. if the browser cannot display the page any close to what was intended by whoever has put it together, you might soon lose your way around it. but if you find it usable, so that you dont need to use a browser on your pc instead, then i can only applaud.