Dillo - will it take over the (*miga) World by storm?

[Cymric]

Err... dillo's plugins use the dreaded fork() call. In other words, no go, unless you plan on ripping the program to pieces. It is however a good sign that the main code is free from this function. That leaves worry about pthreads---albeit in minimal form---and GTK+. And I have never bothered to look at what nice surprises lie in store for Amiga coders there.

But it's a cute little program for sure, I'll give it that.

[Cymric]

@Piru:

It really makes you wonder why people even bother to try porting Mozilla or Firefox to OS3.

[Cymric]

@Piru

Well, who would've guessed... Some brave souls have begun porting OpenOffice too---to OS4, and some even braver ones have begun looking into a port of GTK+. But that is OS4, which is inherently better suited to support software libraries of this magnitude. But even then it will still be a tough nut to crack.

[Cymric]

Well, it is in all likeness just a relative term. OS4 has improved memory management and knows about virtual memory---even though it is turned off by default---and as far as I know it now knows about proper threads as well. Things have improved in the shared library sector too. It may not amount to much, but it still is an improvement over OS3 where you can only add these things by breaking a lot of unwritten rules. It is in all likeniss still a tough job, but it should be easier for sure.

[Cymric]

@itix:

Aw man :-(. Just when I thought OS4 coding would be a turn for the better. Well, the Friedens of course had other things on their mind, so I guess they are excused. But still... If I said I didn't care, I would be lying. Perhaps they still have plans to include some nice bits and pieces to the kernel, as I can imagine their plate is rather full at the moment.