NetSurf

[matthey]

Originally Posted by utri007

Matthey: Chris wondered if you could do some debugging why Netsurf terminates AmiTCP randomly?

I'm not feeling motivated. I really don't want to be relaying messages to a forum I don't plan on returning to (amiga.org, amigaworld.net or any others with connections to A-EON or Hyperion or with AmigaOS 4 fan boy moderators). It is difficult enough to develop without the people in charge working against our efforts.

Originally Posted by a4k-oerx

Wondering about the FreeVec(font) in line 89, font seems to be a string, not a memory block.

It is a pointer to a char string. ASPrintf() calls AllocVec() to allocate a string and this FreeVec() deallocates it. It is not pretty or optimal but makes more sense if you check out ASPrintf() in os3support.c.

Edit: I tried the new NetSurf and did not have any TCP/IP disconnect problems or slow hard drive cache access (CSMKIII with PFS, SFS was horribly slow at delete back when I tried it). I did get an assertion error on the first link I clicked on which should be reported:

Assertion of condition
"*line_min <= *line_max"
failed in file "render/layout.c", line 3335.

Assertions are used for finding problems in algorithms and this tells right where and what the problem is. The speed and layout rendering seems to be much improved. NetSurf would probably have acceptable speed if compiled with optimizations on.

[arti]

Update:

* added autodetect_depth option. [24bit opens on fullscreen in 16bit].

* added auto playback of modules from modarchive.org.
Supported formats: xm, mod and s3m with Hippoplayer.
Recommended setting for xm and s3m is AHI.
Set module_player option to Hip path and module_autoplay:1
to enable.

netsurf-os3.lha

Here are some videos:

[ Show youtube player ]
[ Show youtube player ]
[ Show youtube player ]

[utri007]

Chris has released new version of Netsurf some time ago.

http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co...php?pg=netsurf

Current version biggest change is that preferences mostly works now.

How ever there are problems.

- AGA has some problems with images, so disable them to make it useable
- Speed is decreasing when changin web page ie. going to amiga.org takes 26 seconds, opening forums takes about 100 seconds and then home page again takes some 300 seconds.

Chris hasn't been able to compile this with optimications ON, if anyone could help him that would make this version very useable.

This version is useable and surprisingly stable with real Amigas, emulator users should use Arti's version.

Useable with 040, 32mb ram, AGA and OS3.5/9

EDIT:

Genesis has limits to ram usage 256kb, to prevent TCP/IP out of memory / buffers errors those limit should increased to 512-1024kb more buffres would helps also.

[arti]

Update:
* enabled javascript (work in progress state)

netsurf-os3.lha

Interesting thing is that most usable feature so far is ability to show top middle frame with list of users present on irc on this website

(Screenshot attached)

[kneehighspy]

i think i use an older version and for me the url address book would never save any sites i bookmarked, does this work in this version?

[arti]

After clicking book with plus button?
If it not appear on bookmarks.htm than:
it may be missing or
can't be found if NS is run from console.

You can see in SnoopDos to check that out.

[James]

Originally Posted by arti

Update:
* enabled javascript (work in progress state)

netsurf-os3.lha

Interesting thing is that most usable feature so far is ability to show top middle frame with list of users present on irc on this website

At last!

Small update to the Mason theme to make it compatible with this version:

MasonTheme.lha

[arti]

Very nice!
Can you upload WallGet theme too ?

[James]

Sure!

Toolbars.lha

Also includes toolbars and buttons for:

AmiPodder, AmiStart, amrss, ClassAction, CManager, FreeDB, GuardAmy, hserv, IBrowse, PAC2, PtpDigCam, Remus, ReqAttack, SimplePost, STFax, Strange, and twittAmiga.

[utri007]

Chris has released new build. http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co...php?pg=netsurf

- This one has nice speed up.
- It has only minor graphic problems with AGA.

It starts to have all the features of Netsurf.
- Preferences mostly works.
- Tabs are enabled.

Chris needs a feedback, there are some know problems.
- Speed decreases when surfing from site to site?
- There are time out problems with TCP/IP stack

PS. Netsurf themes works with this one and there are quite many of them.

[utri007]

Chris has setup new test version wich is very slow to render pages. He is trying hunt down a reason to slow down until it gets time out error.

Now would be very helpfull for Chris to get error reports.

This is official desktop version of netsurf, it builds agains official source tree, it uses standard amiga sytstem libraries. Even in current form it is very stable.

http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co...php?pg=netsurf

[utri007]

Chris has put on new version. He has managet to compile it optimisations ON, so it start to be very fast. However there are still a problems, biggest one is memory fragemtion, wich is mostly with real hardware.

This version do require at least 68040 cpu to work. It is very fast with emulators, all the pages loads less than 5 seconds.

With real amiga it loads first and second page very fast and after that it starts to get slow down. Amiga.org loads 18 seconds with 060 and 25 seconds with 040, I'm prety sure that is quite much best what real amiga can do.

http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co...php?pg=netsurf

Chris would like to get some feedback and error reports, that would speed up development. Thanks.

[crazyc]

Presumably we just pull the download from the test release link?

[utri007]

Right.

[crazyc]

Best version I have tried so far.
Can't match your loading speed, but it does run ok. Web browsing will never be good on even an 060 so I only really use it for aminet and ibrowse loads that faster. BBC website loads slowly but looks nicer of course than ibrowse as it shows it better.

[crazyc]

Can't get mason theme to work but haven't tried hard

[crazyc]

Great to see continued development though!

[utri007]

Originally Posted by crazyc

Best version I have tried so far.
Can't match your loading speed, but it does run ok. Web browsing will never be good on even an 060 so I only really use it for aminet and ibrowse loads that faster. BBC website loads slowly but looks nicer of course than ibrowse as it shows it better.

Biggest benefit would be possibility to download files from "not so amiga friendly websites".

I would like also browse amiga sites with amiga.

Did you got that slowdon effect when you was using it? Every page takes longer to download/render than previous.?

[crazyc]

Didn't really have enough time to get consistent results. Also I am running a good amount of ram if that matters. 😃
Will see if I have time to play tomorrow.

[arti]

Non FPU version available:
http://ami-soft.blogspot.com/

Artur