[openbeos] Re: On the internets, web browses you!


Am 03.06.2007 um 14:24 schrieb netster403:
hmmm thats interesting. I wonder if they would release their BeOS version of Opera for no charge publicly (Freeware comes to mind). It would be a good move for Opera because it would give them some publicity.
I can't see this being a good move for Opera. Opera 3.62 for BeOS was patched from a very different codebase than recent releases.
I know they can't release it open source because the code is probably closely related to their current production 
model.
No, Opera has been almost entirely rewritten since then but licensing agreements may well prevent open sourcing what was essentially a bit of a hack of the Windows version. Wagner, the version done for the BeIA was a different matter but, again, licensing agreements would probably prevent any code being released.
While browsing, sometimes it went VERY slow, and sometimes the page never loads and you have to stop and refresh. Maybe some optimizations needed to the network stack? It may just be Opera not fully liking Haiku though :)
It was a better browser than Netpositive and used less resources than Mozilla and SSL doesn't work with BONE. That's about all that can be said about it.
I love Opera and it would be great to see Opera for Haiku with Opera's libraries used for HTML rendering by the OS. The recent tie up with Adobe shows that Opera is prepared to go in that direction but until Haiku has a stable release I can't see that happening. 

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