Very cool. WebPositive uses Haikuwebkit under the hood, which is a fork of webkit (but we want to upstream more).
So a lot of the web support comes from there directly, we “only” need to glue it to the operating system, thankfully webkit is very portable and open and not so much a black box. The code base is huge so investigating issues sometimes takes more time than I’d like. But still it’s “just c++”
We are currently working on moving webkit over to the webkit2 api, which is multithreaded, to make it more resilient to crashes. Hopefully we can also get to some bigger user facing things after that, like streamed audio and video
On Mac OS X, I really, really liked Safari 5.x; sadly it’s completely useless today (because every web-site is encrypted and one cannot update the SSL FrameWork in Safari).
Just registered to this forum, because I discovered Haiku. It impressed me so much.
I’m a long time AmigaOS and MorphOS user. Everything I have learned about computing including graphics, programming, cd burning, using flash drives, scanning, printing, first steps in internet, watching videos, creating mp3-s, archiving stuff, downloading torrents, instant chatting and much more, everything I have learned on AmigaOS and later on MorphOS.
Unfortunately, MorphOS has stuck on an rare and old Mac PPC hardware, and my MacMini got broken, so I started to look for an interesting OS not being another boring Linux distro and being able to run natively on a common old and new PC.
Unfortunately, soon I realized that a Linux seems to be an only way. I hate multiuser and passwords everywhere. I use to have access everywhere, able to install, copy, delete and modify whatever I want without bothering with user permissions.
But I found Puppy Linux which (what I surprise) is a single user OS by default. I was impressed and started to customizing Puppy to look and behave like AmigaOS. I allways do like that
Then I went to distrowatch.com and I discovered Haiku there.
I use Haiku for a few days and prepare my other two AMD desktops to switch to Haiku.
Sorry for ma lame English.
As an AmigaOS user I miss window behavior as you single LMB click on a (partialy covered by another window) window’s titlebar and it gets ONLY activated (w/o popping up to the top of windows’ stack).
I used BeOS a lot back in 2003. Fell in love with the friendly user community and support.
Was serving my moms art site with xitami that I had to hack to get to run on 64bit
Also was running an smptd/pop service. I think it was called mail daemon replacement as I do remember using filters to filter out incoming mail.
Today, if it wasn’t for nebula and getting nvidia support, and also getting my mouse/keyboard to work in uefi ( w/ csm enabled ) mode, I’d probably not be much inclined to use it but occasional as I was to check in on its status.
With that said, I think it is simply beautiful.
The quickness of opening of Terminal with a shortcut key simply is a wow factor.
The Pe editor. Well, it just looks and feels good.
Haiku ports is great. I like the build system and how everything gets tested with dependency checks.
I do remember the day when Haiku finally got font hinting license and enabled font hinting! What a breath of fresh air!
Finally, I just like alternatives.
Here’s a few screenshots of me back in 2003 with Beos dan0.
-I’m a counter-fan of Qt, Firefux and Giggle, so I’ll probably not be using other browsers than Web+ unless I really need to. Live-stream support is a requirement for me to use it for YT; and I think someone mentioned that live-stream is not working well in FF-based browser on Haiku yet.
It is not only about YT. Iceweasel and Floorp are lazy and highly unstable on other heavy websites.
In example there is very pupular Polish classfields service olx.pl
Both browsers are choking on this page and crashing very soon.
I’m tired of Microsoft’s crap. We used Raspbian and Ubuntu in college, I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux at work, Android on my phone, my websites are hosted on CentOS, and I use Mint as my desktop distro. And that’s the problem: there’s no Linux OS, there’s just a Linuxsphere. The Linux kernel is in everything, but you’ll have a completely different experience of Linux depending on which distro you use. Linus Torvalds thinks that fragmentation has held Linux back on the desktop.
Haiku is free and open source, light, fast, and user-friendly.
I love the user experience of Haiku, and how responsive it is as an OS, including how fast it is to boot. I also like how it took some good ideas from Amiga OS of which I was a long time user of such as Translators which was inspired by the former’s Datatypes and also how Tracker in some ways works similar to Workbench. This is not surprising as Be did take inspiration from Amiga OS when developing BeOS.
A couple of recent releases that has allowed me to move to Haiku on my main desktop PC as a daily driver has been the porting of Firefox (Iceweasel) and the development of the Nebula driver for Turing+ NVIDIA GPU’s by X512, which has allowed me to use my 4k display properly.
While it’s not a native application, Iceweasel is a game changer for making Haiku a serious contender as a daily driver, at least for me. A browser able to handle the current web is a key application many people need to have on a desktop computer. I hope Web+ does get the improvements it needs to be able to handle more websites, which seems to be in the works, but having Iceweasel in the interim makes Haiku usable for my needs.
As to mentions YouTube live streaming doesn’t work properly on Iceweasel, that’s not been my experience and I watch several per week. The browser is generally stable with the websites I visit at least.
