MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
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MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
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Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#2The single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#3Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#4Awesome stuff! I love retro computing especially with Macs.
But it's a bit weird that old PPC Macs get modern browsers, but Intel Macs running 10.14 are stuck with Firefox 115esr.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#5The single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.
This needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#6This is awesome and greatly appreciated, going to boot up my iMac G4 and give it a go.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#7Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.
Yeah, I wish more people contributed to Netsurf and it gets the momentum it needs to compete with Blink, Gecko and Webkit. So many divided efforts in this area - there's Ladybird, Flow, Servo, Goanna. Even just improving Webkit and making it truly multi-platform (it isn't available for Windows, and the Linux version is apparently not as performant) would greatly even the field.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#8The single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.
This needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.
The most annoying bug I was able to fix that is also present up stream was this weird viewport, extra scroll bar, that would appear on some pages. I need to figure out how to get involved with the main repo if they'll have me.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#9This is awesome and greatly appreciated, going to boot up my iMac G4 and give it a go.
Awesome! Please let me know how it goes (good or bad) I am always open to feedback.
Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
#10Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.
Yeah, I wish more people contributed to Netsurf and it gets the momentum it needs to compete with Blink, Gecko and Webkit. So many divided efforts in this area - there's Ladybird, Flow, Servo, Goanna. Even just improving Webkit and making it truly multi-platform (it isn't available for Windows, and the Linux version is apparently not as performant) would greatly even the field.
Netsurf seems pretty closed in terms of who they allow to contribute. However, I need to look more into it and not use the excuse that it's "too complicated" to see if they are interested in my bug fixes.