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by navjack27 2903 days ago
I'm waiting for Haiku to actually have a modern web browser and built in support for kaby lake refresh wifi. I want to use this on bare metal so bad.
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navjack27 2903 days ago
You can pretty much put all other applications support on hold. If you get modern web browsing that opens up so many web apps. WebPositive is a joke. Otter isn't quite stable.
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waddlesplash 2902 days ago
> built in support for kaby lake refresh wifi

What chipset is that? I just merged new drivers for the Intel PRO wireless chipsets and Intel "Dual Band" chipsets; so if it's one of those it might work out of the box now.

> a modern web browser

Well, WebPositive can play YouTube and mostly works on major sites ... but yes, this is a difficult problem.

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zlynx 2901 days ago
This article is about Rust and Haiku, so maybe Haiku should look into building a Servo GUI layer.

Rust and Servo are already good for massive multithreading, so that should fit into the Haiku expectations pretty well.

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waddlesplash 2901 days ago
Servo seems to depend pretty heavily on hardware acceleration, which we don't have, so it probably wouldn't work too well. We don't have time to implement that; but someone else is certainly free to put the time in...
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