It actually worked really well for playing youtube on my 1.83 Ghz Core Duo MBP but the browser crashed while browsing and won't start again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A nice surprise was that I am not getting the full onslaught of banner ads but assume they will show up as the box "updates".
Just installed owb on my tiger 800Mhz QS and it is running nicely albeit slower than my leopard DC2Ghz PMG5
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Also, buttons seem to be fine now although Im a ding dong evidently as I still cant figure out the picture thing. Fun browser though
The updated certificates need cryptographic algorithms that weren't supported in the Security framework that shipped with OS X versions earlier than approximately 10.7 . So in order to be able to use those updated certificates you need to (re)link your application against the updated Security framework contained within the Leopard WebKit bundle. (I expect that Security framework to work on 10.5 exclusively.)
Hi @internetzel , and really really thank you for Leopard Webkit.
I'd expect 1 to 2 years of up-to-date web browsing support (excluding already unsupported multimedia features), and a few more years web sites will continue to work without major glitches.
Err I still use IB just with a custom NsButton+Cell class. Check out https://github.com/128keaton/OneWin...buttons/OneWindowBrowser/NSCurvedButtonCell.mThanks for this. I didn’t realize Stainless was open source. I’ll download and have a good play around with it.
As you know, OneWindowBrowser is no more than a simple GUI wrapper for WebKit, so any tricks will be limited to the OS it is running on. Leopard WebKit should relink with it just fine on 10.5, but otherwise the abilities are frozen to the platform and unless we can do something simple like a non-secure certificate bypass (as mentioned earlier), then Tiger and earlier will simply refuse to connect to many HTTPS services.
Personally, if I’m running anything pre-Tiger I wouldn’t expect much in terms of security or the ability to browse more than simple JavaScript-disabled websites, without any plugins. The idea behind supporting a 15 year old OS (Jaguar) is to span a hardware range beyond what is typically considered possible.
If a Bondi or 5 Flavors iMac or clamshell iBook running Panther or a Beige G3 or Wallstreet on Jaguar can access a service via this browser, which it could not otherwise, then we can consider the project a success!
Regardless of the older OS support, I’ve been happily putting the browser to use on El Cap and High Sierra for “single purpose browsing”. An instant (<1sec) launch and load and I can see the latest on these MR forums, read anything new and then close it off and go about my business. Previously I relied solely on FireFox as a separate browsing environment for this kind of purpose, while I use Safari / WebKit for my work.
Also, the simple idea of retaining the last viewed page on relaunch is actually pretty convenient.
@wicknix this is a good idea. It wouldn’t be too difficult to link in to wget (or curl) to handle file downloads. I’ll also take a peak at how the author of Stainless handles these requests to see if I can plug into the NSURLConnection (?) calls to write out the file.
I would love to see a “stripped” view for 1WB in the same way that Dillo (Linux/Gtk) renders pages, but with smooth native Cocoa rendering and fonts. Almost like a simple “Reader” mode, to “democratize access to information” (as put by the Dillo wiki).
@128keaton how did you go with the toolbar button rendering? I’ll be happy to plug in the UA strings, we can just load it into the prefs window pop up menu as an xml/plist for flexibility/expandability and/or user customization.
@RhianB yes, this is how a simple idea begins to pack on the pounds
Cool. When you ask your 4400 to play ball, we're talking about spinning beachballs, right?
Here's my Pismo running Jaguar with one of the very few compatible websites I could find. (LowEndMac and Mac Garden worked too, along with any website which hasn't been overhauled for maxium profitibility within the past 10 years). Unfortunately, Jag and Panther can't handle the web bloat in any capacity, whereas at least Tiger and Leopard will give it a try.
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(Snuck in a quick game of Invaders in mini vMac while I was at it
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Sounds good @128keaton ! It's a bit hard to maintain consistent button sizes across the different OS versions using the standard options in IB. (As you can see, Jaguar missed the mark completely). It would be better to write a custom NSButton class and override drawRect:. Check out the NSBezierPathAdditions category in this sample code for drawing rounded rects pre-Leopard:
http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/samplecode/Reducer/index.html
I know Panther and Tiger play nicely with this, but I haven't tried this in Jag (yet).
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Jump in @wicknix , you're welcome to contribute to the project via github. You might even want to plug in some of your code. There's lots to do to make it more capable.
A few things come to mind:
* Add User Agent selection for standard UA types.
* Figure out how to handle links which are provided via javascript (like links in posts on these forums).
* Handle file downloads.
* ... Tabbed views, maybe.. Or possibly an option to split the view for a side-by-side arrangement.