Subject: Re: Graphical web browsers for NetBSD/Sparc
To: Eric Radman <theman@eradman.com>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/22/2006 19:11:17
Great!  I'll try this in a few days.

Thanks!

cheers

bruce

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Eric Radman wrote:
> 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

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