> > Voyager did not. It kinda relies on an Amiga being there for certain
> > proprietary tools, includes for custom built tools, assigns.. it's a
> > messy mess IMO and it's not worth cleaning it up. And there is no gcc
> > cross compiler for x86 Amithlon that runs under AmigaOS or MorphOS.
> 
> While I may be wrong, I could have sworn that this file,
> "x86-ami-bin.lha" were the x86 developer gcc files to crosscompile
> with (aminet).  Heh, proprietary mess....  sounds like my computer
> room!

I need some proprietary cable tie-backs, velcro and sticky tape for
mine :)

I haven't looked at Aminet in about 6 months. Maybe there is a tool
for it. Huzzah if there is :)

> So, cleaning up the needed tools is not worth the effort, at
> least for the moment?

Not while we have Amigas and Pegasoses (Pegasii? :) to build with.

> maybe?)  PostScript, now that brings back nightmares of late night
> coding excursions.

NOOO!!! DON'T MENTION THAT! People will be reminded about the lack
of printing support. Whooops.. maybe that was worse :)
 
> Heh, a gzillion times :-)  Well, the proof is in the pudding, and V's
> JS works in far more places that AWeb's or IB's.  I don't have access
> to IB's new version (beta, alpha, or otherwise), so I cannot compare
> with future offerings.

Well right now I'm wondering how I can improve V's JS without a running
copy of Voyager. There is stuff I half finished and plenty of stupid
and lame missing parts from the JS specs I can implement. It's sitting
and wondering what to do to do it that is the issue.

I would really like to implement one or two cool JS features but then
they'd require someone to walk the code with me and explain where I can
add things.
 
> > > Yup, and so does an 8meg AGA/ECS amiga.  At least for web-browsing. 
> > 
> > That doesn't stop people trying. And whining.
> 
> Well, either the minimum specs have to be upped or a blanket "settings
> configuration" needs to be made for those people.  Although, I'm still
> partial to just upping the specs :-)  "Are you running V on an ECS
> 8Meg system?  Too bad, it's not supported, goodbye."  8-)

Okay. I have an idea.

I implement family support. You get nicer looking fonts if you use
ttf.library. Maybe, just maybe, I will implement some kind of mapping
codepages from webpage-specified to browser-default, or maybe let you
specify a font for different encodings (so for instance you could have
ArialPolish for iso-8859-2 - just like a user here does).

Then that is it. Amiga 68k font support dead.

The rest is PPC, x86, and whatever-else specific, since it will require
a great deal more snazzy stuff than AmigaOS 3.1 generally runs on. 

Sound good?

-- 
Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

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