2.9 (14.9.2008) - Changed the way the timer works reducing delays in some cases. - URL and search gadget contents are saved before and restored after (un)iconify. - Updated to SVN revision 486. - Using Cairo instead of SDL for graphics now, requires AmigaOS 4.1. - Enabled SVG support. - Fixed frame bugs. - Marked text is cleared after successfull copy. - Added edit menu. - The 4th and 5th mouse buttons are used for back-/forward now.
Jorg, what's the advantage of using cairo in OWB now?
The Cairo graphics implementation is more complete than the SDL one. WebKit supports Cairo, SDL support is from OWB and doesn't include everything (yet), for example next to nothing of the SVG parts work with SDL.
Will it test for 4.1 presence and fallback to sdl under 4.0 or should I wait for my copy to arrive? (Itailan post is slow )
Thanks for the progress! Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
So (methinks) it would be clearer to state that the whole OWB needs os4.1, not cairo only. Just for ppl who hadn't their coffee or morning dose of alcohol yet... Yep, I know I'm scrutinizer
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
So (methinks) it would be clearer to state that the whole OWB needs os4.1, not cairo only.
If there would be a port of Cairo (libcairo.so, and the shared objects required by Cairo: libexpat.so, libfontconfig.so, libfreetype.so und libpixman-1.so) it would work on AmigaOS 4.0 as well. But "requires AmigaOS 4.1" is in the history on my homepage and in the Readme already, "Requirements:?AmigaOS 4.1" on os4depot.net and "Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.1.0" on Aminet.
I have an issue where by no text is visable in owb. I've just reinstalled OS4.1 (boot from CD full install not upgrade) and the problem is present with OWB in sys:utilities and the 2.9 archive. Could this be a font problem ?
I was refering to the "Changelog" contents in this news item . Anyway, it might be just me and my scrutinizing mood, so I'll stop wasting your and others' time ...
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
I have an issue where by no text is visable in owb. I've just reinstalled OS4.1 (boot from CD full install not upgrade) and the problem is present with OWB in sys:utilities and the 2.9 archive. Could this be a font problem ?
Sound like a problem with the fonts, but it shouldn't happen if you didn't change anything and didn't install additional fonts yet. I just booted from a clean AmigaOS 4.1 partition without any changes and both OWB 1.25 and 2.9 are working correctly. The only fonts OWB needs are the DejaVu fonts which are included in AmigaOS 4.x.
So (methinks) it would be clearer to state that the whole OWB needs os4.1, not cairo only. Just for ppl who hadn't their coffee or morning dose of alcohol yet... Yep, I know I'm scrutinizer
Jack
Well, instead of storing OWB in Works:Internet, I have now moved it to sys:utilities, the same way it is installed in OS4.1. I have updated the OS4.1 version from v1.25 to v2.9, and installed v2.8 om my OS4.0 partition. Now I just direct AmiDock to sys:
Here it doesn't work and same problem with the previous one.. if i run it from shell i got a font problem, it tell me " Verdana Font " not found.. maybe is this ?.. it doesn' load anything and i cannot close the window.. it load a little bit and then hang up..
Here it doesn't work and same problem with the previous one.. if i run it from shell i got a font problem, it tell me " Verdana Font " not found.. maybe is this ?
No, except for the DejaVu fonts included in AmigaOS 4.x OWB doesn't need any fonts. It uses the webcore fonts and fonts specified on the pages, but if such a font isn't installed it uses one of the DejaVu fonts instead.
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it doesn' load anything and i cannot close the window.. it load a little bit and then hang up..
When starting it form the shell make sure to use a complete URL, OWB Doduo only accepts complete URLs as argument and doesn't try to complete them itself, for example "owb amigans.net" can't work, only "owb http://amigans.net/".
So, will you still update OWB for us classic OS4 users who may never see Cairo implemeted?
Maintaining 2 different versions of OWB is too much work. There is an old AmigaOS 4.0 Cairo port on os4dept.net, if it's working without problems I'll build an AmigaOS 4.0 version of OWB 2.9 with it, but if it doesn't work someone else will have to port the current version of Cairo to AmigaOS 4.0, I don't have the time to port libraries needed by OWB myself as well.
Edit: I just tried building OWB with the Cairo library from os4depot.net but it seems to be too old, the following functions are missing: cairo_clip_extents(), cairo_has_current_point(), cairo_pop_group_to_source(), cairo_push_group(), cairo_surface_get_content(), cairo_image_surface_get_data() and cairo_image_surface_get_stride().
would you at least consider making a last cairo-less version of OWB with working downloads and , maybe , bookmarks? Cuz, as OWB 2.8 is, is pretty much good and stable, but misses those 2 very important features (especially the download). Think of it as a OWB 2.85 maybe? :)
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