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Offline 23JUL

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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 26, 2002, 03:50:13 AM »
> What IS missing on the Amiga side of things is the plugins.

Come on, the plugins should plug in *somewhere*... ;)

So why not use the codebase that
a) has its standard way for plugins
b) is proven to work under different OS'es.
c) is being developed by many people.
d) is more compliant towards w3c standards than any other browser!

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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2002, 04:08:47 AM »
Tell you what, instead of ripping into you which was my first reaction ( bad ) how about you prove your case.

Tell me how much harder it is to adapt plugin code from another platform/browser to this platform/browser combination vs porting Mozilla and then the plugin code.

Note that you are conversing with someone who has ported Mozilla before onto two platforms.

I dont think AmigaOS needs Mozilla, I think it needs a *better* browser than all the other platforms - the Amiga edge. With Mozilla there is no value add to using AOS.
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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2002, 04:10:26 AM »
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d) is more compliant towards w3c standards than any other browser!


Note this is not true. I suggest you poke around http://www.w3c.org and do a bit of reading from the proverbial horses mouth.
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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2002, 05:36:14 AM »
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Tell me how much harder it is to adapt plugin code from another platform/browser to this platform/browser combination vs porting Mozilla and then the plugin code.
Too be honest, I haven't got a clue. I guess the first option would be less harder, and is more in the line of the Amiga way of doing things. Nevertheless, by following that path, you are still stuck with an outdated browser. (*) In other words: I can't garantuee my pages are correctly interpreted.

(*) On the other hand: I can't say much about the currently used browsers on the Amiga, since I don't have access to a properly configured and fast enough machine. I don't know whether there are xhtml, xml, html, xls, css1/2,  dom1/2, dtd, javascript/ecmascript compliant and/or capable browsers for it, but these are at least the 'technologies' which are counting for the other half of the 'webexperience' without plugins.

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Note that you are conversing with someone who has ported Mozilla before onto two platforms.
Share your experience with the third ;)

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I dont think AmigaOS needs Mozilla, I think it needs a *better* browser than all the other platforms - the Amiga edge. With Mozilla there is no value add to using AOS.
I think AmigaOS needs Mozilla, although I admit I would love to see a better browser for AOS. The value added by Mozilla is at least a choice how to browse and how a page may be interpreted by the rest of the world...

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>d) is more compliant towards w3c standards than any other browser!

Note this is not true. I suggest you poke around http://www.w3c.org and do a bit of reading from the proverbial horses mouth.
Okay, that may not be 100% true, but it is at least my experience by assigning some css and javascripts to pages, Mozilla did the job better (than ie, o and konq) by being more consistent with the proposals the w3c made (especially the boxing model and event handling).

Getting offtopic.

Main reason I wrote here was that someone wanted to program for money, I don't have money, only the suggestion for a Mozilla port framework, because I think that really is worth the money.
 

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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2002, 02:50:22 PM »
If Amaya wasnt such an un user friendly experience I would
suggest porting that instead - and upgrading it.

It is 100% compliant with standards because it is ( at least
up until recently, Ill check ) the browser we use to check
out new draft standards.

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Re: Sponsor AROS or AWeb development
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2002, 08:08:41 PM »
Why not taking a full time job to save some money for the next A1/os4 and use your talent/free time to help people for instance porting Quake2 ?
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