Amiga OS 4.x, is the dream over?

[utri007]

Originally Posted by britelite

Just because the sites you visit happen to work doesn't mean every other site will, and you know that.

I know that, but but generally saying most web sites work. Most sites work even with Netsurf.

Let's be honest here, you can browse the web on AmigaOS4/MorphOS only if you carefully pick the sites you want to visit.

This is not true.

[Gorf]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

What did happen with Timberwolf they just took the money and left people with a usable web browser?

if it would be usable ....

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Gorf

if it would be usable ....

lol yes Unusable.

[britelite]

Originally Posted by utri007

I know that, but but generally saying most web sites work. Most sites work even with Netsurf.

By a very loose definition of "work". How well does a small insignificant site like Youtube work again (and I do mean _work_, not kind-of-works-when-using-scripts-and-jumping-through-hoops)?

[jPV]

Originally Posted by britelite

By a very loose definition of "work". How well does a small insignificant site like Youtube work again (and I do mean _work_, not kind-of-works-when-using-scripts-and-jumping-through-hoops)?

YouTube works ok for my use.. as it's been working for quite long time now. At one point I wasn't able to write comments or such, but then it started to work itself again few years ago.

But I can browse and watch videos, log in and comment etc. I think I only have the fullscreen script enabled for that to be able to play videos more smoothly and with less cpu load.

And embedded YT videos, for example, here on EAB do work just fine too.

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by activist

Chromium

Bleurgh. Plz keep google's spying out of my Amiga

[Gorf]

Originally Posted by dreadnought

Bleurgh. Plz keep google's spying out of my Amiga

Chromium is not Chrome. There is no need to use any Google-services in a chromium based browser.

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by Gorf

Chromium is not Chrome. There is no need to use any Google-services in a chromium based browser.

There's no need, yet majority of chromium projects does just that. You need to search for obscure forks like ungoogled chromium to alleviate it.

Besides, there's no reason to support chromium's (ie google's) monopolization and enforcement of web standards when there's Firefox.

[Valken]

Originally Posted by dreadnought

Bleurgh. Plz keep google's spying out of my Amiga

+1... at least use Linux so you know what you are building or running on.

[coldacid]

Originally Posted by dreadnought

Bleurgh. Plz keep google's spying out of my Amiga

This is why I stick to NetSurf and IBrowse. (I even have the Windows build of the former installed on my home PC, although usually I'm in Waterfox.)

[Pyromania]

Has anyone touched the Timberwolf code? Is it still a bit daft on OS4?

[britelite]

Originally Posted by jPV

Well, I don't know if it's wise to talk in this thread, but I shot a quick video about how YouTube works currently.

I still have my Mac Mini MorphOS-machine set up and have browsed the web with it, so I do know how "well" youtube works.

[Minuous]

@jPV:

You made a YouTube video about how to access YouTube!? If they can watch your video, they have no need to watch it. If they need to watch it, they can't. :-D

[jPV]

Originally Posted by britelite

I still have my Mac Mini MorphOS-machine set up and have browsed the web with it, so I do know how "well" youtube works.

Ok, I was just wondering what you mean by "scripts-and-jumping-through-hoops", because it pretty much works like this without any scripts. I only have that one script to make fullwindow playback smoother, but don't know why you'd need them in plural...

[jPV]

Originally Posted by Minuous

@jPV:

You made a YouTube video about how to access YouTube!? If they can watch your video, they have no need to watch it. If they need to watch it, they can't. :-D

Ok, waste of time then... I take it down and go make something useful.

[britelite]

Originally Posted by jPV

Ok, I was just wondering what you mean by "scripts-and-jumping-through-hoops", because it pretty much works like this without any scripts.

Yeah, it "works", as in at least I don't really want to watch videos at these framerates

I only have that one script to make fullwindow playback smoother, but don't know why you'd need them in plural...

Exactly, you need a script/hack to make it at least somewhat watchable. And I wasn't talking about OWB specifically, hence the plural form.

[Retro1234]

If someone wants to use OS4 as there main OS why not it might be quite fun - maybe when I'm on holiday

But The Title of thread is the dream over and I think it's rather disappointing that Hyperion couldn't even make a decent Web Browser after all that effort of Porting the OS to PPC and everything else yes it's rather disappointing.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by jPV

Ok, waste of time then... I take it down and go make something useful.

I would not say so,very few have an amiga as only system nowadays

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

Has anyone touched the Timberwolf code? Is it still a bit daft on OS4?

Anything but the very latest PC web browser is bound to be a bit daft.

Today I switched to using Linux for web browsing because though the latest version of Firefox my XP machine can run is less than 2 years old, it now won't render some web pages properly (with fatal results). Of course the new Firefox is also a bit daft in other ways, but I have to put up with it. It's like 1995 all over again. Some things never change!

[Pyromania]

When will someone port Chrome to the Amiga?