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

["Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I agree. Mozilla is in the process of being a Good Thing, but I also think 
>it's big and oafly. Procton mentioned that he was in process of porting the 
>AthOS port of Konqueror, ABrowse, to BeOS. If we want a native browser, 
>NetOptimist seems to be a reasonable thought, but if we want a browser 
>quickly, perhaps finishing the port wouldn't be a bad idea.

In true management style, I see both sides. :-)
Mozilla is a *very* complete web browser. And people are a lot more likely to 
listen
when you tell them that you can not see their site when you tell them that you
are using a 'standard ' browser. 
OTOH, port:wine::port:software. 

>>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
>It's still floating around, but it was buggy and crashed a fair bit. I wasn't 
>impressed. 

I was impressed that Scott was able to add JS to Net+ by himself in a fairly 
short
period of time.

My *personal* take is this - Scott said that it would take a whole team of 
people working
full time on a browser to make it work as brokenly as IE. I suspect that he is 
right.

Since we are unlikely to get a dozen or so good engineers working full time on 
a browser, 
porting makes sense.