FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Javascript-capable Browser

["Joakim Lundborg" <cjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I feel I have to disagree on the BeZilla thing here. Obviously OBOS 
needs a good web browser to be competetative. Having a high quality 
port of Mozilla would defenitly be A Good Thing, since it is standard 
(well... more standard than Net+ anyway) , standards-compliant, and 
well maintained.  

The downside however is that no matter how good port you make of it, it 
wont become a BeOS native app, and hence won't be using many of the 
advanced features of the BeOS. That is, it wont be using the BeOS 
mailing system, it wont be using translators for rendering images. It 
wont be using add-ons the Be way. It wont be replicant-capable. It wont 
be using attributes in stored bookmarks. It won't store bookmarks in a 
folder. And so on.

I seriously think that the preferred/standard/sanctioned by/developed 
by OBOS browser should take advantage of these advanced features of 
BeOS. Also, as already pointed out, a good web browser is central in 
using a computer today. Consequently a good native web browser should 
be an integral part of the OBOS Experience (tm), the feeling that 
everything works like it should, the feeling that made us love the 
BeOS. 

We need to find a web browser project that aims for this. AFAIK, the 
only one that comes even close is NetOptimist, but I'm not sure about 
how development is going. 

Also, I seem to remember having a 3.03b or something version of Net+, 
that actually supported JavaScript. Anyone knows what happened to this=3F 
Lost in the BeIA dungeons=3F

- Joakim Lundborg