Web Browsers

[Caius]

There have been a couple of attempts, none which have finished. It's a rather major task.

Bounties are a good idea, seems to work for AROS. However, there is a significant difference. The main strength of AROS is that it's a proper community. It has a site from which the development effort is focused. There is no such thing in the Amiga 68k "community". I say "community" because there IS NO such thing as an Amiga 68k coding community. It's all scattered. There are a couple of places where you can find some 68k coders (both assembler and C/C++) hanging around, but they're not overly active.

So who would coordinate such a bounty system? The main problem would be lack of focus, because it would be about individual applications, unlike the AROS bounty system which is (currently) mostly concentrating on getting the operating system itself into shape.

So as great as it would be, I don't believe it would work.

[Caius]

I just want to clarify a couple of points in my last post. First I'd like to demonstrate what I mean by no active 68k coding community. These are the most active Amiga classic coding forums I know of:

EAB: The coding forum is for the most part assembler coding, and it's about programming the copper and how to make PNG render 1 millisecond faster. See for yourself.

UtilityBase: The AmigaOS Classic - C/C++ development forum has three new threads thus far this year. The AmigaOS Classic - Assembler forum has no new threads since December 1st 2007.

Other coding forums includes the Amiga OS Development right here at a.org. Then you have Amiga Development at amigaworld. Hardly reassuring either.

There are some more coding forums, but they are mostly like the above.

Now, all the above sites are great, but there's nothing that suggests there are grounds for a bounty system leading to a modern Amiga classic web browser.

bloodline wrote:
Just back port from AROS, should be easy, Bernd does it with afa.

That's a good idea. AROS has the AmigaOS3.1 API. But I'm sure there are some extensions as well?

Sorry about being so negative, but I just don't think there is much future in AmigaOS classic. I love it, but I think we'll have to accept that there will be no more major development in this area.

[Caius]

Oh, and feel free to refute any and all of my points. Nothing would please me more than being proven wrong. :-D

[Caius]

JJ wrote:
what about this then

Amizilla

Only two links on that site works. Paypal and the bottom link to the main SourceForge site. I also checked out the CVS repository at SourceForge, and from what I can see it's just a checkout of the Mozilla 1.7 repository, and a handful of additions like AmigaOS shared library support. There may be more, but I couldn't find it. Also the last update was 3 years ago.

[Caius]

That's more like it. My favourite item from their webshop: AmiZilla Classic Thong :lol: