the great obstacles

[humppa]

and here comes the stylesheet capable browser: http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2006-06-00085-DE.html

Basically a web-editor, using it for daily web browsing is far too slow and missing JavaScript another limiting factor.

[AGSzabo]

im sure it is going to have javascript one day. there are some other projekts with which code could be shared. maybe if all do their efforts together we get one good browser.

[iamaboringperson]

 

[Minuous]

We already have reasonable office applications (AmigaWriter, ProCalc, SuperBase, etc.) and web browsers (AWeb, iBrowse, Voyager).

I don't see any need to port bloatware such as OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc. when we already have our superior Amiga-only alternatives.

I haven't yet seen a site worth visiting that uses Java or CSS.

[Gojirax]

I wouldn't be harassing my European brethren in #Amiga.org chat right now if it weren't for Java.

I wouldn't be able to waste countless hours being entertained at www.homestarrunner.com if it weren't for Java and Flash.

Flash, Shockwave, Java... critical pieces of the Internet experience. If you don't have it, stick to BBS's IMHO.

Another thing would be a simple, easy to use Windows file and print services client. (Mac even comes close to this now, there's no sense in avoiding it since most homes/businesses have it.

RE: Office Applications? I'm not sure. I use Word, Excel and Outlook at work constantly. They have their problems, but I'm in and out of them so much that they've become quite comfortable, and they're again the standard. I ordered Amiga Writer 2 recently and I hope to be able to make use of it at home, but we'll see.

Basically a decent current OS needs to be able to interface with my TV, DVR, Palm, Phone, Cameras etc with the same or greater ease as a PC.

Bluetooth, Firewire, USB2, Wireless Networking, Wired Networking, fully (And I mean FULLY) Multimedia capable.

And all "plug and play".

Oh, and it needs to be able to run World of Warcraft

If I could do this I wouldn't even own a PC at home.

[bhoggett]

AGSzabo wrote:
im sure it is going to have javascript one day. there are some other projekts with which code could be shared. maybe if all do their efforts together we get one good browser.

I think that's unrealistic. These projects - Amaya, Amizilla, the KHTML port - are all just that: ports of Linux applications. It wouldn't help a great deal if all the porters get together because it's not like three coders bringing their own projects together to merge into one new one.

As far as I can tell adding Javascript is not on the Amaya roadmap, not would I seriously suggest using it as a browser replacement.

I fear the wait for a modern browser on AmigaOS must go on while longer. Amaya is a decent editor though.

[bhoggett]

Minuous wrote:
We already have reasonable office applications (AmigaWriter, ProCalc, SuperBase, etc.) and web browsers (AWeb, iBrowse, Voyager).

I don't see any need to port bloatware such as OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc. when we already have our superior Amiga-only alternatives.

I haven't yet seen a site worth visiting that uses Java or CSS.

And this, my friends, is THE great obstacle!

[AGSzabo]

@Minuous

what do you mean mozilla is bloatware?

a sites worth visiting (with css): http://kestra.exotica.org.uk/
http://www.majorchaos.de/siegel.html

> And this, my friends, is THE great obstacle!

maybe you re right. maybe not.