IBrowse 2.3 RSN

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Stefan Burström posted some good news on the IBrowse ML:

Yes, the 2.3 release is not far off at all. The features are frozen and we are just fixing the last remaining bugs.  The 2.3 upgrade will be a free upgrade. And the update will be releases at aminet. Should work perfectly on a standard OS3.0/3.1/3.5/3.9 Amiga.

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> what are the specific features for the IBrowse 2.3 update?

I don't think a more specific list of updated features has been released containing anything other than an updated JavaScript engine, IB rewritten for PPC (?) and AmiSSL2.

> but is IBrowse 2.3 the release that we are going
to see in OS4 [...]?

We won't see IB "in" OS4. It will come with OS4, on the same CD. This will be a scaled down "OEM" version with missing features compared to the retail version.

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Bezzen wrote:

CSS [...] let you control text, fonts and layout a great deal better than the HTML-standard.

It is worth pointing out that stylesheets are part of the current HTML standard (and as such they of course ought to be supported by Amiga browsers too).

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Ami-X wrote:

>  http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Those with CSS-incompatible browsers can have a look at what that site looks like with a CSS-capable browser (Galeon) here.
In that picture, the mouse pointer (invisible in the screen grab) rests over the "floating" menu up in the right corner, highlighting the "Search" menu item. All those differently coloured words at the top of the page are also links that will also be highlighted (or do you say "highlit"?) when pointed at. No need for JavaScript, Flash or anything like that. Also note the layout of the "textframe" with rounded edges and compare it with how your browser displays it.

This is what this article looks like in Galeon. Here the mousepointer is pointing at "More about Software" under "Related Links" in the top right corner.

Here are the Amiga.org forums in Galeon. The "Amiga Gaming" link is highlighted, as is that whole table cell. In fact, the whole cell is working as a link.

I recently saw an extremely impressive CSS demo with different background picture/table transparencies, on-the-fly-changing user selectable themes, text flowing around shapes, unfolding menu trees and lots of stuff that made you think "hey, Flash and JavaScript never was this fast on this computer before". Unfortunately I lost the URL. Perhaps somebody here knows what site I'm talking about?

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Marky_D_Sahd wrote:

Excuse me, but could somebody please post a link to the original information??

Sure, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ibrowse/message/1616, but you need to be a subscriber to that mailinglist to read it and I quoted Stefan Burström's message in its entirety in the news item anyway. There's no reason to have doubts about my quote from him being correct.

I thought the inclusion of IBrowse in OS4 was mostly hypothetical. Has it been confirmed?

No browser inclusion in the OS has been mentioned or confirmed. A "light" version of IBrowse will however be distributed along with the OS. If we dare to go out on a limb and for once actually believe what Amiga Inc. are saying: http://www.amiga.com/corporate/032502-mcewen.shtml.

The information I had was that the browser in OS4 was being worked on by Hyperion, not by Stephan?

I never heard anything about this. Maybe I lost track of the happenings in this circus.