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WebPositive is based on modern WebKit but quite a few features have not yet been enabled (because they depend on platform code that is not implemented) or funct
by waddlesplash 5y ago
WebPositive is based on modern WebKit but quite a few features have not yet been enabled (because they depend on platform code that is not implemented) or function not so well. But there is potential for sure.
Nothing prohibits porting Chromium or Firefox, they are just huge projects with a massive surface area. (Even WebKit, smaller than both of those, is larger than all of Haiku itself.) So we have put our time into WebKit instead.
There is Qt Creator already in the package repositories, and I think someone got Code::Blocks to at least build if not start. I've heard NetBeans used to work, though I'm not sure it still does. Eclipse would require much more work.
- snazz 5y agoThe JetBrains IDEs at least start on Haiku (or they did at one point): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18893648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18893648 Not sure how good that experience is but it's very impressive nonetheless.
- elcritch 5y agoIf you can build QT5 on Haiku, then it may be possible to get it's embedded version of chromium running. It's largely self contained, but some of the dependencies contain a few finicky code like simd jpeg library or ffmpeg.
- waddlesplash 5y agoPeople have attempted building QtWebEngine, yes, but it still has a surprising amount of OS-specific code within it. I think it may have gotten so far as displaying webpages but then crashed incessantly. Plus, I'm not sure what browser shells that use QtWebEngine are still actively developed; Falkon looks to be dead...
- em-bee 5y agoEven WebKit, smaller than both of those, is larger than all of Haiku itself that pretty much proves the point that the webbrowser is an operating system in itself. let's hope that webkit can keep up with web standards development. and that maybe someday someone will port firefox to haiku.