any coding effort would be better aimed at an open-source alternative. When it comes to spending money, a bounty for a small and fast open-source browser would be better spent. This community needs to realise that open source is the way to go if there's to be any hope of decent up-to-date software
Writing a browser from scratch (to support all these modern features and standards), open source or not, isn't going to happen. Not on Amiga at least. The resources this will take would be enormous, even for a large company. Proposing an Amiga-bounty(!) to produce a browser for 68k from scratch is a little naive, it simply won't happen. So it would have to be based on either Firefox (bloated, slow and bulky) or Webkit (like Google Chrome, Apple's Safari and MorphOS's Odyssey), and *neither of these* (especially Firefox) running on a 68k processor wouldn't be very fun, even if you *could* make it running.
This community needs to realise that open source is the way to go if there's to be any hope of decent up-to-date software at a somewhat reasonable price.
Fab has generously opened up and provided his Odyssey sources to developers on both AROS and OS4, and also gave a lot of advice to help them. However, neither the AROS or OS4 version are matching the MorphOS Odyssey 1.17 browsing esperience (especially not the OS4 version). So that didn't help much, despite the sources being handed out, with aid and advice to go with them. Although the main problems on those platforms has a lot to do with the OS themselves lacking features that you can't solve easily as an *application developer*, instead it's up to the OS developers to to improve the OS in various areas. Or you simply use MorphOS!

Netsurf is almost useable, with native gui it would be nice browser for REAL 68k amigas.
Netsurf isn't perfect, but at least it displays most of www pages right and would be realistic goal, unlike OWB etc. It has developed to work very low spec machines.
Chris who has ported netsurf to OS4 has made quite lot work to make backporting to 68k/OS3.X possible and little easier.
Interesting, but I always heard you needed a really fast/lots of RAM Amiga to run it?
OK.. So, what's your definition of "low spec?"
From what I can see on Aminet:
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* AmigaOS 3.x
* Picasso / CGX compatible graphic card.
* 64 MB Ram (128MB for complex sites).
* 68020+ CPU with FPU, for usable speed 68060 or emulator is required.
With the ACAs and others out there, 64M RAM isn't out of the question (although saying an 060 for "usable speed" concerns me).
But that 2nd one on the list is going to be a killer. I don't think many people would consider RTG low spec... Lots of AGA (and OCS) only Amigas out there...
Oh you think RTG is too high spec?
I don't agree, I'd even say those requirements were a bit optimistic. At least for *real* use (instead of "can be used on some sites").
For the common, every-day, media-rich 2012 level browsing people are used to today, a semi modern RTG card (like Radeon R200/R300) would be kind of essential, 128MB RAM an *absolute minimum* (ask the Efika users), the double is preferred. I doubt it would be very usable on a 68060 as well, it would stagger under a normal web page with lots of div's, more than the most rudimentary css, and one or a few javascripts.
Look at this page (it's a Swedish newspaper):
http://www.dn.se/It's a normal, every-day page, just one of the several of its kind we encounter when we do our daily browsing routine. It has more than 750 separate div's, most of those has their own styles attached to them, its css has more than 3000 entities, it has some 20 javascripts, it has close to 100 images, several other media objects.
I'd like to see a browser do this on a 680x0 CPU on an AGA screen. And why not some tabbed browsing as well?
Or no, I'd rather not.
There is a limit to what
"It has developed to work very low spec machines" can do for you. After that, you simply need more resources under your engine hood.
I don't think webkit is considered bloated or bulky. It has been used on hand-helds for a long time for instance, which is what most people use as a *definition* for "very low spec machines".
Last generation handhelds stomped the Sam computer into the ground. The current generation handhelds stomps the entire PPC architecture into the ground (except perhaps the highest specced G5's). And you are talking about 680x0, where you think 68060 is a bit over the top?
Yeah...
:lol: