IBrowse 3.0: Status Update

[samo79]

Oliver Roberts ha postato su Amigaworld questo status update concernente lo sviluppo di IBrowse 3.0

"Summing up regarding the various questions... Yes, open issues are
not directly a sign of development, but busy beta testers. No doubt
some of you will have noticed the resolved count increasing, which of
course does indicate development is in progress (also not that many
changes and fixes do not even have an associated bugtrack entry, so
will never show up in any counts).

Yes, there will be an OS4 native version of IBrowse 3.0. David
Burstroem already did a lot of work on porting IBrowse, and in recent
months I have been working at moving this part of the project to
completion. Contrary to comments I have read elsewhere, porting
IBrowse to PPC is by no means a trivial task - not only was the
IBrowse source code heavily reliant on SAS/C specific features, there
are also chunks of 68k assembly code, some of which still need to be
ported back to C, while some of it needed to be ported to PPC asm (low
level stuff which simply isn't possible in C, and an integral part of
IBrowse's threading implementation).

As for CSS/DOM, again David did already write the CSS parser a while
ago for IBrowse 3.0, although in many ways the parser is the easy part
- the layout engine will be where most work needs to be done.

More frequent updates are planned, but it's pointless until we have
IBrowse 3.0 in a usable state, and by that I mean as good as 2.4, but
with some CSS support and improved DOM support. We will release 3.0 as
soon as we can, even though this will most likely mean CSS support is
not complete (but usable/stable), and then we can release more
frequent updates from that point on as CSS/DOM support is improved.
That's the plan as I see it, at least."

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24382&forum=32#405187

[NubeCheCorre]

E' gia' qualcosa, ma di preciso non si sa' se per l' anno prossimo potremo avere qualcosa ?

[samo79]

Sarà ben più di un anno secondo me, io aspetterei Sputnik, poi quando arriverà IBrowse 3.0 tanto meglio

[MacGyverPPC]

ho solo capito che sarà x os4 .... ma una traduzione dei punti positivi?
grazie

[samo79]

ho solo capito che sarà x os4 .... ma una traduzione dei punti positivi?
grazie

I punti salienti sono:

1 - Il porting da 68k non è cosi semplice visto che bisogna riscrivere l'attuale sorgente scritto in SAS/C e assembler 68k in linguaggio C per AmigaOS 4.0

2 - David Burstroem ha già scritto da tempo un parser CSS per IBrowse 3.0 anche se c'è da scrivere ancora un layout engine funzionanante, ciò richiederà tempo.

3 - Aggiornamenti più frequenti sono previsti ma non per ora, prima si vuole arrivare ad avere una versione 3.0 stabile e sicura, poi si potrà pensare di rilasciare aggiornamenti. (in stile Firefox immagino)