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Offline Thorham

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Re: The "One" AmigaNG OS App I Feel We Need
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 04, 2017, 02:16:14 PM »
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And it would not have mattered since the web is in constant evolution. Web browsers need more or less constant maintenance to keep up with trends and technologies.
It would have mattered, because it could've been more than a quick & dirty port. Instead it could've been well written, maintainable and fast.
 

Offline tone007

Re: The "One" AmigaNG OS App I Feel We Need
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2017, 03:49:45 PM »
I think for the "full web experience" these days you need too much horsepower (classics will never be great web machines) and there's so much that'll never be compatible with AmigaOS.  Even a great browser would be somewhat crippled by things like lack of Flash (unfortunately.)  I've got a dual G5 PowerMac that has a somewhat well-supported browser (TenFourFox) and I get better performance with a $10 thrift store quad-core Atom machine with Chrome/Edge.

For fun? Why not. But when I actually need to use the web to get things done there's no beating a mainstream, current browser.
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: The "One" AmigaNG OS App I Feel We Need
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2017, 04:01:44 PM »
Flash is dead, and good riddance. I've removed it from all of our business machines and blocked further installs, with the exception of a handful of machines that still need to access outdated sites (for example, vendor sites that host their own videos instead of just putting them on YouTube).

Finally got around to implementing that "hack" to Ibrowse last night which forces it to use tls mode instead of ssl and was *very* surprised at how many sites became accessible again. If only the devs could get it together and continue updating that application. :(
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