Gmail says no more supported on webpositive

[PulkoMandy]

@madmax

Or giving it a less cynic spin: we (google) have these complicated browser apps, but there are soooo many browsers out there… See, we promise we’ll try our best to make them work in the latest versions of the most used browsers. If you are not using one of them, you are on your own. Some stuff may not work, and that is more likely to happen the older and more obscure your browser is. But you also may not have any problem. We’ll just show a message telling you that much.

At least they just do a warning and still let users use the website, not everyone is so nice. So I guess we can update that v rsion or see if we can get it from some webkit code instead of hardcoding it

[ninos]

Blink (the engine used by Chrome) was originally forked from WebKit

[ninos]

What I think is that as WebPositive is improving,
the Haiku developers should focus their attention on its functionality.
Of course there are loads of other browsers in HaikuDepot,
but WebPositive is the only one, which is native.

In my opinion, the main issues for any OS are:

1. security
2. a completely functional native browser.

(PS. I’m not tech-savvy, but I want to understand the future Haiku,
which I consider the most interesting project,
as far as operating systems are concerned.
I also use various GNU/Linux distros , and GhostBSD,
but Haiku is sooooo special.)

[nephele]

And webkit was forked from khtml, doesn’t change that those engines don’t share much apart from some common rooots

[PulkoMandy]

User agent was updated in HaikuWebKit 1.9.23, the warning should be gone.

[san2ban]

At work …night shift …I will check and confirm tomorrow morning

[san2ban]

Thanks. I confirm that there is no warning now when I check Gmail

But, after sometime,will it again crop-up again or this is done as a permament solution? Just curious…you know better

[PulkoMandy]

It will happen again next time Google changes the version requirement. There doesn’t seem to be a way to share this code (especially the part that decides the version to report) with other WebKit ports currently. So we have to watch what the GTK and Playstation ports are doing and try to follow it.