[openbeos] Re: Browser
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:16:30 -0400
This should be in the FAQs.
Browsers are important and wonderful apps. They are really for
people other than the OS team to do. Personally, I would love a
replacement for Net+ that was lead by someone who has a burning
desire for the smallest, fastest, BeOS specific browser possible.
But that project wouldn't benefit at all from being under the umbrella
of this project, so it isn't.
>It is pretty early at this stage of the development, but
>are there any thoughts of creating a basic lightweight
>browser too?
>
>I started porting ABrowse a long time ago, but have not touched
>the source for 6 months or more, mainly because I had not made
>any real progress and that my disk crashed. Fortunately a guy
>downloaded the sources the night of the crash, but it took me
>2 weeks to find out all was not lost.
>
>Since then I have only made small changes to the qt specific classes
>of ABrowse and now it atleast renders some text, although all of
>it mostly renders completely wrong. I don't have time to continue
>with such a huge code base, but would like to see it being
>further developed. If there is a developer out there thinking
>of developing a browser this is a good starting point.
>
>Regarding the port, I would rather see porting khtml instead of
>ABrowse though.
>
>Anyhow... If you are interested download the source here:
>
>http://kaktus.campus.luth.se/BeaBrowse.zip
>
>and I will be glad to discuss the code and help out as much
>as I can without actually doing any coding.
>
>Regards
>
>/Procton
>
>
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