From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: jamos@oboj.net, 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Netsurf 3.9 for Plan 9 (work in progress)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 14:57:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DCB150A539D8B14987387850715D909@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30b184ac47ef349337078b6caee9c0c4@oboj.net>
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> Hello everyone,
>
> As some of you know from the 9fans discord channels, I am trying to port
> the web browser Netsurf to Plan9 (9front).
> My port is still very much work in progress, but I wanted to publish a
> first version for the ones that might find it interesting to compile and
> run. I started out with the prior work of Jens Staal and AAP that I
> found in different contrib directories, but my port is based on the
> latest stable version.
>
> My port so far uses the 'framebuffer' driver, which means that the
> browser draws in a memory bitmap, than then is copied to a Plan 9 Image
> using loadimage(). It does not work to snarf or paste. If I get good
> success with the framebuffer frontend, I will try to write a native
> frontend for Plan 9 there is already ones for amiga, atari, beos, gtk,
> riscos and windows present.
Well, that's definitely progress -- and I'm definitely interested
in enough browser to get me past captive portals and such.
For me, though -- it builds, and it runs, but the image that
Well, it builds, at least. But when I try to run it, I get a garbled
image (see attached).
The garbled image doesn't change with respect to window size.
> There is a lot of functionality lacking currently, but it is possible to
> load local web pages, even if they don't display so nicely. There are
> many things to figure out. I have not given fonts any thoughts. It is
> little endian (as I commented out the code that checked for endianess).
> In reality not so much works, but it compiles and something shows... :-)
> There is a lot of README files though, and I am open to all kinds of
> input.
>
> You can the source code here:
> https://webbkurs.ei.hv.se/~imjam/plan9/netsurf-3.9-2020-01-01.tgz
>
> //Jonas Amoson
>
> Ps. Oh, and the port relies heavily on APE-shit, and being a browser it
> also supports a lot of WEB-shit ;-)
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2020-01-01 22:02 jamos
2020-01-01 22:57 ` ori [this message]
2020-01-02 0:59 ` [9front] " jamos
2020-01-02 16:45 ` ori
2020-01-03 3:12 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-03 3:30 ` ori
2020-01-03 20:14 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-03 21:01 ` ori
2020-01-03 21:35 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-04 0:22 ` hiro
2020-01-04 10:21 ` Steve Simon
2020-01-04 13:41 ` No rendering of pages (Re: [9front] Netsurf 3.9 for Plan 9 (work in progress)) jamos
2020-01-04 15:49 ` ori
2020-01-04 12:08 ` [9front] Netsurf 3.9 for Plan 9 (work in progress) jamos
2020-01-04 17:14 ` ori
2020-01-04 21:33 ` jamos
2020-01-08 4:23 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-08 4:25 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-24 8:09 ` Eli Cohen
2020-01-24 10:09 ` hiro
2020-01-24 18:16 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-24 18:40 ` jamos
2020-01-25 15:11 ` Eli Cohen
2020-01-26 21:10 ` jamos
2020-01-29 20:42 ` Ori Bernstein
2020-02-03 16:00 ` ori
2020-02-04 20:19 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-04 20:11 ` ori
2020-02-04 20:29 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-01-03 10:39 ` telephil9
2020-01-03 10:44 ` telephil9
2020-01-03 15:07 ` ori
2020-01-03 15:14 ` telephil9
2020-01-03 11:55 ` Steve Simon
2020-01-03 15:08 ` telephil9
2020-01-31 10:38 kokamoto
2020-01-31 16:34 ` ori
2020-02-01 23:46 kokamoto
2020-02-02 15:24 ` jamos
2020-02-03 1:31 ` ori
2020-02-03 5:54 ` telephil9
2020-02-03 5:58 ` telephil9
2020-02-03 2:08 kokamoto
2020-02-03 3:03 ` ori
2020-02-03 3:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-04 23:40 kokamoto
2020-02-04 23:57 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-04 23:58 ` ori
2020-02-05 1:20 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-06 7:04 ` ori
2020-02-06 8:16 ` hiro
2020-02-06 10:10 ` Steve Simon
2020-02-06 15:29 ` ori
2020-02-05 2:13 kokamoto
2020-02-05 2:28 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 10:00 ` jamos
2020-02-05 17:44 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 18:40 ` jamos
2020-02-05 18:48 ` Eli Cohen
2020-02-05 19:04 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 19:10 ` ori
2020-02-05 19:06 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 20:17 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 20:56 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-05 3:10 kokamoto
2020-02-05 3:25 kokamoto
2020-02-05 6:44 kokamoto
2020-02-06 0:08 kokamoto
2020-02-06 0:24 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2020-02-06 11:26 ` jamos
2020-02-06 14:42 ` hiro
2020-02-07 12:04 ` Steve Simon
2020-02-07 3:12 kokamoto
2020-02-08 0:15 kokamoto
2020-02-08 0:19 ` ori
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