As I am none of those guys whinig around 'port this', 'port that' I will kind of do so today. Not really, because everyone knows that a good browser is lacking and I guess everyone knows also that there are some projects on the way. But one of these projects needs help:
The AWeb team is badly looking for ppl helping them. You need GCC skills and I guess a deep breath for a long hault.
So, why am I not helping one might ask? Right, I have the same reasons as most ppl here. Too much other stuff is to do and I am quite afraid of the huge amount of work. But nevertheless I like to ask everyone if there are some ppl around who might be that crazy to join that team...

Read the original plea at http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4356

Why don't THEY join to work on Amizilla instead

because aweb 4.0 has a lot of potenticial and jsut needs more man power.......question if i helped but was developing under winuae or amiga forever would it just be a simple code recompile for MOS? or would there be more work involved and if so what? as it turns out the A+ certification took me a week so i have about a months worth of free time to kill....

@poundsmack

Better put your energy in Amizilla.
It's miles ahead ...

is it really?

The main part for a browser is the html-engine
I would guess ... exactly that part which is missing
in AWeb. They want to port khtml and nothing is done for this
at this time ...

On the other hand you have the amizilla-crew (Jeff Shepherd mainly)
having low-level stuff of Mozilla ported ... just join the
amizilla-mailinglist on yahoo to see for yourself.

See this, aweb team replied:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1813&order=0#17472

I agree with them just joining the mozilla team as well. I never was much of a fan of Aweb. I dont think i ever used it more then just to see how it looked when it came with OS 3.5 and 3.9 though. I was an Ibrowse registered user and still am.

@Acill: Read to MHK in AW, they prefer a developer-friendly manner or something...

See this: http://lists.sunsite.dk/cgi-bin/list?list=aweb-dev&cmd=threadindex&month=200410&threadid=ijcjmbglcphjlibdfkmj

i am /was on the amizilla mailing list...and i like khtml a lot! better though geko is a good engine but still....


the first like about the khtml engine is good and yes we at skyos have SkyKruzer..(though it needs some work)..khtml is portable.....very much so......its jsut not perfect yet....but it is getting there quick......

[ Edited by poundsmack on 2004/10/21 21:27 ]

Sure, khtml is portable ... but why ?

I read the whole thread and it's even worth
than I thought ... They dont even know what
GUI is planned. They're at 0.

Sure I wish them luck. But common sense still
makes amizilla the better choice. Be it compatibility,
portability or the current status of development.

The 'excuse' used for not joining the amizilla efford
is exactly that ... an excuse !