MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

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mplsllc•about 4 hours ago

The single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.

anthk•about 2 hours ago

This needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.

mplsllc•about 1 hour ago

The most annoying bug I was able to fix that is also present up stream was this weird viewport, extra scroll bar, that would appear on some pages. I need to figure out how to get involved with the main repo if they'll have me.

crims0n•about 1 hour ago

This is awesome and greatly appreciated, going to boot up my iMac G4 and give it a go.

mplsllc•about 1 hour ago

Awesome! Please let me know how it goes (good or bad) I am always open to feedback.

system7rocks•about 3 hours ago

Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.

thisislife2•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, I wish more people contributed to Netsurf and it gets the momentum it needs to compete with Blink, Gecko and Webkit. So many divided efforts in this area - there's Ladybird, Flow, Servo, Goanna. Even just improving Webkit and making it truly multi-platform (it isn't available for Windows, and the Linux version is apparently not as performant) would greatly even the field.

mplsllc•about 1 hour ago

Netsurf seems pretty closed in terms of who they allow to contribute. However, I need to look more into it and not use the excuse that it's "too complicated" to see if they are interested in my bug fixes.

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

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