Subject: Re: Graphical web browsers for NetBSD/Sparc
To: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Eric Radman <theman@eradman.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/22/2006 14:22:57
On 09:09 Tue 22 Aug     , Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since this question comes up once in a while I'd thought I'd send
> around my experiences with links.  This was one of the web browsers
> listed in the OpenBSD FAQ and it is in pkgsrc as links-gui.  It builds
> quickly and easily and runs quickly on NetBSD current.  In fact, it
> runs so well that it has replaced Firefox as my web browser of choice
> on my slower (less then 1ghz) systems.  It really is nice.
> 
> The only downsides are that CSS doesn't seem to completely work, no
> tabs, and some sites refuse to work.  Ie, my.ebay.com works,
> my.ebay.ch doesn't let me log in.
> 
> I suspect as you get to fancier and/or more complex sites they work
> less well, but for most technical sites everything is readable.

I've been working on an older build for konqueror-embedded that uses
qt2. It's rendering engine is much slower than links, but it does
support CSS well. My pkgsrc build (a work in progress) can be found
here:

http://mirror.teisprint.net/pkgsrc/konqueror-embedded/

** Warning: the install _does_ overwrite /usr/pkg/bin/konqueror **
-- 
Eric Radman  |  http://eradman.com