OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Web applications
Timeline announcement for public beta of new Otter Browser....
Jan-Erik Lärka:
Hello,
Sweden must be "ahead" of most of the world as it seems, as almost everyone once upon a time agreed on "windows" and with that also accepted to update toward a promize all the time. Many sites these days refuse to let one in if one fall behind the browser updates the slightest. Even what appear as plain text sites tend to check and require only new browers. The exception is ... OS/2 World.
The banks here in Sweden, phone compaines, ... you name it, forcefully stop the use of old and not so old FF for quite some time now, even though there are no visible updates that should require such restrictions.
I've had time to prepare for the transition, thus installed the extension in FF to install other extensions and export passwords, bookmarks etc. and await to see if the new browser perhaps can use url wps objects as bookmarks, allow one to write scripts to import passwords etc.
I don't use Mac nor Linux... and don't intend to, but find the idea to connect to another system, even inside a virtual box, and project an application window to the OS/2 system, appealing. An harvesting application that send over the application resources and redirect drawing commands to the other side... but that might just be what rdp (resource+draw command) is about, compared to vnc (image)?
The latest release of WebCam work great on my system btw, though a bit grainy when used in the dark, so there might even be something to look forward to there later on.
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Wim Brul on February 16, 2022, 10:27:47 am ---
--- Quote ---Two Dutch OS/2 users reported recently that https://mijn.ing.nl/login/ no longer works.
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Make that three. It happened in december last year and I had to make up my mind on what to do. Must I buy a smartphone, laptop, desktop and learn how to operate that? Which one? What operating system? All my systems are OS/2 based. It is all I know. No linux, Mac, Windows. Bills and taxes had to be paid! So after searching the internet and making up my mind I ended up buying a windows 11 laptop at the local computer shop.
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Open a ticket at AN.
Roderick Klein
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on February 16, 2022, 05:16:57 am ---Hi Roderick,
By the XUL browsers, they're mostly forks of Firefox, PaleMoon and friends that use the Goanna (forked Gecko from 52ESR) engine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_%28software%29 and of course SeaMonkey, and you're right, they have very little user base, probably less then 1%.
It's a crappy situation with Google controlling the standards it seems now, the only saving grace is Safari as Apple, especially their small devices is a market that can't be ignored.
As for the funding, the subscription model should work as long as the QT folks support the QT5 Web stuff, afterwards, who knows.
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There is rough estimate how long it would take to port QT 6 to OS/2. The big chunk of work was going from 4.68 QT to the 5.12 version.
Why can QT6 not be ported to OS/2 ?
Roderick Klein
Andreas Schnellbacher:
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on February 16, 2022, 12:30:09 pm ---Sweden must be "ahead" of most of the world as it seems, as almost everyone once upon a time agreed on "windows" and with that also accepted to update toward a promize all the time. Many sites these days refuse to let one in if one fall behind the browser updates the slightest. Even what appear as plain text sites tend to check and require only new browers.
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No, there's only one Internet and the differences between states decrease. It's same here in Germany.
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on February 16, 2022, 12:30:09 pm ---The exception is ... OS/2 World.
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Sure, and a few others. Additionally, some can be made work by switching JavaScript off or by using an add blocker. But there are not many sites that work completely.
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on February 16, 2022, 01:50:38 pm ---There is rough estimate how long it would take to port QT 6 to OS/2. The big chunk of work was going from 4.68 QT to the 5.12 version.
Why can QT6 not be ported to OS/2 ?
Roderick Klein
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Be good if it can be ported and it is a simpler process then porting QT5. My biggest worry about this stuff is how 64 bit is more and more of a requirement.
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