Odyssey 1.23 progress: r5 RC2

@Gregor

I am using duckduckgolite which still works fine with the following line :
https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=%s

@all

We all know that the biggest gap of AmigaOs4.1 is the somewhat outdated browser and we never had anything better than Odyssey.

What is the possibility for someone who is not familiar with AmigaOs4.1 to port a decent browser or write it himself without using AmigaOs4.1?

My best friend studied computer science and has been doing this professionally for about 17 years and could help with this, of course he doesn't have a developer system and could only develop this under MacOs/Win/Linux and of course not for free. The whole thing could be financed by donations. It's just an idea...mainly with Java and Kotlin this someone is familiar.

Otherwise are there not other possibilities to make a project out of it with the help of the community to be able to realize something like this ?

But then it will probably fail because there are no capable developers who could realize it for us.

That's why I need as much information as possible about whether something like this would even be possible.

@Raziel

Quote:Mine is set to:



which also works. It does take a while to display the response, though, but I don't think that's special for Odyssey.

Best regards,

Niels

@kas1e

Quote:There's a bug related to pages with login (e.g. some Bugzilla or beta tester pages) where you get an error twice and then have to do a refresh (F5) before it will accept your login.

I think we discussed it - maybe in private? - at some point after you released 1.23 r5, where you wanted to wait until the next round.

Could that be fixed now?

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache
Quote:
Dont know: there always will be issues with sites because of old core.. maybe if somebody can debug this particular issue and find out what wrong something can be done. But who will do that ?

If you want an up to date browser which isn't obsolete on release already forget getting one with an AmigaOS GUI, way too few AmigaOS developers left for something like that.
With OWB it was possible for a short time, as long as Pleyo supported it and had several full time developers doing nothing but updating the WebKit parts and OWB's platform abstraction layer 2-3 times a week. The OS and CPU parts didn't need any, or at least only minor, changes because nearly all incompatible changes in WebKit were covered in the OWB BAL updates instead.
It's very unlikely that there ever will be a web browser again which is as platform independent as OWB was.

Instead a browser using a common GUI instead should be ported, something like the QT6 Browser, if required using AmiCygnix. But with only 1-2 developers, Alfkil and Edgar, working on it there probably wont be anything usable any time soon either...

@Gregor

If you have issues with DDG and DDG lite is not working for you, maybe try FrogFind? It should work just fine on OWB since it works great on IBrowse and AOS 3.2 for me. FrogFind is a search engine wrapper for DDG (DuckDuckGo) which converts the results to basic HTML.

Link to DDG Lite: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/
Link to FrogFinder: http://frogfind.com/

How to add to OWB quick search bar:

RMB/Windows/Search Engines:




I hope this helps!

is there a way to expand the listview ?

for example when you go to Mantis bug tracker to report bug in a WHDLoad slave, you can not select a game past DragonStrike which is annoying.

have a test here and select a game past D letter...
http://mantis.whdload.de/main_page.php