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The Amiga community has come out in full force, and we are proud to be able to soon offer a product that is as advanced, efficient and frugal as the Operating System it runs on”, explains Helmar Rudolph, initiator and manager of Project Magic for Opera Software.īoth companies aim at a release date of December 98, just in time for the Christmas shopping season, providing a source of fun and satisfaction for many loyal and die-hard Amiga followers. “It was one of our goals to make Opera available to as many Internet users as possible, and being able to offer an Amiga version not only adds credibility to Opera as an efficient and user-friendly application, but also constitutes a boost to the Amiga platform.” “This step is just the logical result of Project Magic, which since its inception has seen several thousands of users pledging their support for Opera for platforms other than MS Windows. “Being a long-time Amiga user myself, it provides me with great pleasure to announce the official development of Opera for the Amiga platform”, adds Business Director for Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner.

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Opera has an Amiga ‘feel’ to it even under Windows 95, so I’m confident it will make a high-quality Amiga application, and will offer a degree of commonality with Windows 95 that few applications achieve”, says Corringham. “We are delighted to be involved in porting Opera to the Amiga. The development will be carried out by Reading, UK, based company Ramjam Consultants Ltd, under the leadership of Tim Corringham.

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Opera Software Announces Development of Amiga Versionįollowing the tremendous reponse to its Project Magic initiative, Opera Software AS today announced the development of an Amiga version of its popular browser. Anyway, here’s the original press release from 1998: Opera is very portable, so hopefully they will change their minds in the near future. Some time ago Opera also planned to do an AmigaOS port, but due to uncertainty regarding the AmigaOS platform at the time and already popular and fairly competent (low bloat, efficient and fast) AmigaOS webbrowser alternatives they eventually cancelled the project. The best BeOS webbrowser is probably Opera. >Wow, I’ll never complain about the state of BeOS browsers again. Tabbed browsing has also been in IB since 1999. Just click the E button in the corner and it’ll launch your favourite editor. In the recent interview with the OmniWeb developer/boss, he mentioned an upcoming feature which allowed you to edit a form input field in a separate window. IB users love the IB GUI as much as OmniWeb users love theirs. I still run IBrowse as my only browser, and despite its shortcomings in modern standards compliance, it’s got the best GUI, bar none. Porting such an engine would probably take about as much time as getting IBrowse’s own engine up to date. Yes, KHTML and Mozilla would provide better compatibility, but they’re really not options, both due to size and UNIX techniques. And NetBSD is a UNIX, which the Amiga certainly isn’t. It takes days to compile and won’t even run on many NetBSD ports. Mozilla is a headache and runs slowly on my mate’s SGI, which is a monster.

The rest of the interface is just a collection of Windows and navigation buttons, which can be rearranged, replaced and heavily extended.Īs for KHTML and Mozilla, they weren’t there when Ibrowse started development, and they weren’t in any usable state when IBrowse 2 was written.Īdd to that the fact that they’re bloated (especially Mozilla) and unportable. I run the above mentioned M$ web font pack for a prettier experience. They’re not much cop, but can thankfully be exchanged. Mike and the reviewers both use the standard bitmap fonts supplied with the OS. The ugliness you’re referring to stems from the font rendering, I suppose. It doesn’t really contribute much to legibility, though RISCOS fans will probably tell me otherwise. I visit lots of internet cafe’s and surf using Internet Explorer from school and none of these installations use antialiased fonts.

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It really looks hideous with the standard bitmapped Weirįor all the talk about antialiasing on OSNews recently, I haven’t seen AA in action on any Windows PC since 1997-ish.

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Mike, you might want to consider using the WebFonts package based on M$’s fonts, or just install the truetype fonts straight off.