Wayfarer 9.0 released - a new major version of the only cutting-edge web browser for Amiga-like systems. It runs on MorphOS and sports an updated @WebKitGTK engine at version 2.46.5.
This post was created with MorphOS and Wayfarer 9.0.
@chainq @WebKitGTK Nice! I'm going to check it out later tonight.
@chainq @WebKitGTK works pretty well, but it's a bit sluggish on G4@533 (or whatever sits in that tower). But the compability is awesome.
@emil @WebKitGTK Well, it's slow, but it's a miracle it works. Basically, modern web engines are not "designed" to run on anything less than a quad core, with massive GPU cores and SIMD doing the heavy lifting. Several APIs are intentionally designed to run multiple threads that wait on each-other in a spinlock "for speed" and similar horror shows.
In a decade we somehow went from "the web works even on a toothbrush" to whatever this is, and the world did not even notice.
@chainq @WebKitGTK You don't have to tell me, my primary home computer is Thinkpad X61T, it's on the edge of usable performance, but just barely. Despite being a fossil it still punches G4 lights out.
On a retro computers I use browser like I use Multiview. When I need to read something, not like a ghost OS on modern computers.