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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:02:20 +0200
From: jamos@oboj.net
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Subject: Netsurf 3.9 for Plan 9 (work in progress)
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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.

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 ;-)