> 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 ;-)