Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
Quote:
Intuition wrote:
I hate to flog a dead horse buy am I the only one who would prefer a bounty to port the Blink engine to Odyssey?
It's not that much different from WebKit compared to other browser engines and its actively maintained for PPC by IBM, as is it's V8 JavaScript engine.
It's much faster on identical hardware than WebKit too.
Never heard of Blink engine, but if it is still being actively developed and supported on the PPC platform, and if it is truly faster on identical hardware than Webkit, without having any other short comings, or reasons why Webkit would be preferred by developers working on Odyssey, then I totally agree with Intuition's statement. If we are going to fund a bounty to fix web browsing on MorphOS (and other PPC Amiga inspired platforms), lets do it right and choose the best engine, tools, Javascript, etc., that we can choose.
I appreciate Raf's enthusiasm, but perhaps someone else can help out by modifying the requirements of the bounty to make it more specific. I will support a bounty even if it does not have a specific developer assigned to it yet, but it must have specific goals. I don't ever want to contribute to a bounty that turns out like the one that resulted in the half finished, poorly performing web browser port of Mozilla, that we are all very aware of and was a huge disappointment.
MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
