As you probably already have read @ Haiku-os.org, Ryan Leavengood is making huge progress on porting Webkit to Haiku. The core files are now compiling and although the port is not yet complete this is great news. Currently browsing is pretty much lacking from Haiku, Opera kind of works but that’s version 3.62 (the latest version of opera for the other platforms is 9.24), Firefox seems to works a little bit for some people, but definitely not for the average joe, Netpositive is simply to outdated. A complete Webkit port means that a native Webbrowser for Haiku suddenly comes within reach.

Ryan started his work on the port back in July after a bounty was opened at Haikuware.com, the bounty has already raised over 870 dollars since. He plans to complete the targets set for the bounty next week. After that he will start to work on an application which will be able to use Webkit to render basic HTML. In the end the work should result in the development of an up to date webbrowser, with the help of other developers of course.

The work on this port is massive so thumbs up for Ryan, the bounty is still open for donating! I’m sure that there are people reading this who are interested in helping with the work on webbrowsing for Haiku, in the end R1 is nowhere without a proper internet experience.

btw, I known that I haven’t posted anything since a long time (May 9th to be precise) and I’m in shame for that but with the days getting shorter and more time being spend inside I might find more time for writing posts. I can’t promise though ;)

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