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Our first decent WebKit rendering!
The WebKit Haiku port team has seen some nice progress lately in the form of our first decent rendering. Read more to see it...

I cannot take all the credit for this as the latest push to fix some bugs and implement font loading and text rendering has been courtesy of Andrea Anzani. In fact he created the above screenshot.
Now a few caveats about the above:
- BeBits is being loaded from disk, not the network. We still need to work out the bugs in the Haiku GCC4 port of CURL.
- Scrolling is disabled at the moment because we still have some work to do there. You can kind of see blank spots at the bottom and sides where scroll bars would render.
- There are obviously some rendering bugs here and there.
- The HaikuLauncher is still very basic without any chrome (back and forward buttons, URL bar, status bar, etc.)
But overall, not too bad! It makes me feel pretty good to see all my hard work finally producing a decent result, and I'm glad I have help now because it results in screenshots like the above.
As usual I will try to keep everyone updated as the port continues to progress.
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Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
I'm astounded. I had no idea it was actually so far developed! Major congratulations! :) Please please keep up the good work!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Good work WebKit team!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Excellent news!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Wow, looks awesome guys - keep it up. It's going to be so great having a native Haiku browser with native look and feel that's capable of dealing with all the crazy content that's out there these days. It was always the one point that really let me down when I tried using the BeOS as a day to day OS.
That and I could never get # to work correctly with the GB keymap... made C coding tricky to say the least!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Fantastic. Good to see that we soon have a browser from a project that actually are interested in smaller OS'es. At some point I'll have to look into WebKit.
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Andrea Anzani ROXX!!!! :D thx thx thx for your work!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
That's pretty cool!
Congratulations to all those involved...
BTW, it seems to me that the current owner of webpositive.org has been contacted?
(or so Babelfish combined with a very superficial understanding of the Italian language tells me)
Source: haiku-os.it
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
yes, I've been contacted, even though I didn't yet had a chance to contribute really, due to a missing gcc4 setup. but xmas holidays are arriving shortly, which gives a big relief from day job activities and some more time to fiddle around ...
cheers,
rossi
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
That's great, rossi...I assumed you were an outsider who had to be talked into handing over this domain :D but the situation is much better than that!
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
I'm glad you're finally rewarded for all your months of hard work on this, and it must be nice to have some help too. Sometimes it helps to have someone with a fresh look on things.
Anyway, keep up the good work, we're all eagerly awaiting the first version that can use the network and that has a url bar. What else could we possibly need? :) (well, maybe bookmarks then, and a back and forward buttons...) (and flash, and ...)
Re: Our first decent WebKit rendering!
Yay, this is looking terrific! I'm really thrilled that we're looking at the beginnings of a proper native Haiku browser. It's really exciting.
A million congrats to all inv