[haiku-development] Re: Firefox port [was: Re: R1/a4 initial planning]
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:48:24 +0100
On 2012-02-22 at 18:30:33 [+0100], Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> Similarily, the problem with WebPositive is not that it has too few
> features compared to a "full browser". I think the problem is that it is
> not reliable.
Reliability certainly is a problem and probably the most pressing one, but
completeness is an issue too. Stuff like password, cookie, and SSL
certificate management, a private mode, ad blocking, ... is missing.
[...]
> I think if the WebKit port would be more complete (most importantly
> rendering and network backend), and if it would "just work" and be 100%
> reliable, then almost nobody would complain it can't do this or that
> feature that Firefox or Chrome can do. A good, native integration would
> almost certainly feel more important to a lot of people.
I like a good integration as much as the next user, but while integration
issues are mostly just annoyances, missing features can be show stoppers. It
is sometimes said that with 80% of the features one can make 99% of the users
happy. But since even something as basic as printing is missing, I doubt that
the level has been reached yet.
CU, Ingo
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