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SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« on: December 23, 2004, 03:29:19 PM »
The SkyOS people have ported Firefox & Thunderbird to their OS. They are also going to realease A 30 page guide on "how to port mozilla to new OS guide".

Amizilla bounty anyone?


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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2004, 03:33:52 PM »
"Connection timed out"

Has this been /.ed?
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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2004, 04:21:57 PM »
Yep.  A quick Google for SkyOS revealed the SlashDot article at the top of the list.  Only 2 hours old...
 

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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2004, 04:22:12 PM »
Yea,

Their getting /.ed & OSnewsed!

hella of a beating :whack:
 

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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2004, 04:56:01 PM »
Thats just sad that a newOS with limited application support has Mozilla and we still dont for Amiga or like systems. What is the deal with that?

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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2004, 05:53:05 PM »
The deal is, quite simply, that the terms under which Amizilla must be developed in order to get the bounty---OS3.x compatibility most notably---kill the project as surely as 1 plus 1 makes 2. SkyOS apparently has a better infrastructure so it can carry the weight of a complex program like Mozilla far more easily. Enough has been said on this matter elsewhere (you can look up the discussions on this site), so I am not going to rehearse the arguments presented there.
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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2004, 06:43:29 PM »
No argument intended. I agree that os 3.x should not be a factor in getting a Mozilla port. I just hope that when this "guide" comes out someone would make a OS4 and/or a MorphOS port. It would be nice to have.
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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2004, 06:55:12 PM »
@Cymric,
I was thinking OS4  port when I started this topic. I forgot about all the OS3.x compatability stuff

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Shouldnt have brought up the bounty

My bad

 

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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2004, 07:31:21 PM »
Aha, okay, I agree that with OS4 things are somewhat better positioned for sure, yes.
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Re: SkyOS guide to porting Mozilla to an new OS
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2004, 08:07:43 PM »
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Aha, okay, I agree that with OS4 things are somewhat better positioned for sure, yes.


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