[openbeos] Re: Haiku distribution
- From: <holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:01:54 +0200
> From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Yes, absolutely, I think I just semi-subconsciously skipped Firefox
> due to its size. I know we need it, I just wish there was hope for a
> revival of something a little more NetPositive-like. :I
Here are my thoughts on the subject:
* Webcore-based
There has been efforts to get it off the ground, but every attempt seems to
end nowhere. I'd really like to see one succeed though, as it seems to have a
philosphy and code-style not to different from ours. Someone with
organisation-skills and motivation might be able to get this going.
* Mozilla-based
Building a browser based on Mozilla's embedding code. No 'big' technical
hurdles to actually doing this, in fact I think it would be quite easy.
Problems that previous efforts had was that the event-handling thread wasn't
started. Unfortunatly I have no time for this, but if someone wants to I
wouldn't mind helping with pointers. Use an older code-base though,
BeOS-rendering is broken in trunk, due to the Cairo-switch.
* Writing a new browser
IMO this is requires to much effort, both to build and to maintain. Everyone
expects a browser to work with everything and users tend to be a bit
'passioned' about their browsing-experience. There is a lot that goes into a
browser and it should be secure as well.
/Fredrik Holmqvist, tqh
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