Ibrowse and ssl problems-news

[futaura]

I can't take the credit regarding AmiSSL - most of the work has been done by Jens Maus, and several others have been involved. It's true that development did stall, but to cut a long story short I stepped in recently to help fix everything as the code was broken and simply didn't work. Now it is working again, the AmiSSL team have regained their motivation, as you can see from GitHub .

AmiSSL is not dependent on IBrowse and can be released at any time. However, IBrowse is if course dependent on AmiSSL - it would be foolish to release IBrowse 2.5 until the SSL issues were fixed and that means a new AmiSSL.

I didn't realise until yesterday, while reworking the SSL code in IBrowse, that IBrowse 2.4 and AmiSSL 3.6 could already handle TLSv1 connections - IBrowse 2.4 explicitly disables it for a reason I am unsure of. Wish I'd figured that out earlier as I could have published the "fix" as soon as POODLE hit and sites began to shut off SSLv3, but better late than never!

[futaura]

Will there be any improvements in HTML5 rendering in IB2.5?
And is the PowerPC AmigaOS4.1 version planed?

No and yes. HTML engine is very much unchanged - 2.5 will come in native OS4 and OS3 flavours. The OS4 port was completed long ago.

[futaura]

Thanks for letting us know, i look forward to a new release of Amissl! Its getting harder to get around the net in ibrowse on my 4k

Note that existing apps will not automatically be able to make use of the new AmiSSL. Programs need to be recompiled using the new headers, due to changes in the OpenSSL API (this has always been the case and intention - there is no way around that, so AmiSSL v3 was designed this way).

[futaura]

Does it support CSS? If not what is point to have NG OS version? Lightning fast aminet?

What's the point in owning an Amiga, let alone six? Surely a PC/Mac is better?

Move along.

[futaura]

I think I last paid for IBrowse more than 15 years ago, so I wouldn't mind showing some financial appreciation for the developers, hint hint. Hope we have something to buy soon.

Thinking more medium-term, have you considered an unstable/nightly build branch, like Debian sid or Firefox Aurora?

It has been considered, but not viable for now.Indeed, my next mission is to sort things out with Stefan as we have been out of touch for the last couple of years, partly because IBrowse development stalled while waiting for AmiSSL. I can hardly believe it will soon be 10 years since IBrowse 2.4 was released!

[futaura]

I might be wrong, it's been a long time, but wasn't a CSS engine partially done already ?

I think the parser was the written for IB3.0, but not everything else that is needed after that - i.e. layout/rendering and JS/DOM.