Re: netscape 4.6

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Damion Yates wrote:

> http://www.troll.no/qtmozilla/ This is communicator linked against Qt, it's
> stunningly fast, but lacks some pretty fundamental functionality making it
> useless for my work (doesn't do authentication), and also crashes pretty
> often when you find other stuff it doesn't do, such as 'view src'.

Yes, I had a quick look a minute and actually there's tons of different
versions - BeZilla (BeOS), aMozilla (Miggy), Jazilla (Java), etc. Is
qtMozilla actually the latest moz, or is it just the old Communicator 4.X
code?

> > suspect it could be done. Mozilla itself is not a complex piece of software
> > - the current browser had two buttons an URL box last time I looked -
> > most of the work is going into Gecko, the display engine.
> That doesn't sound too good. I was hoping for Communicator linked against
> GTK+ rather than Motif.

They are liking against GTK+ now instead of Motif at Mozilla, but I
suspect this is the Mozilla Mozilla, not Communicator Mozilla (i.e. the
all new developed version). The primary development is on GTK+ IIRC. I
don't know which GTK+ this is, tho', because GTK1.2 is doing the rounds
currently, and I've been told it's not easy to write for GTK1.0 1.2 at
the same time.

> I looked at installing it on this Solaris 2.6 SPARC system, but it would have
> been hell, as it had zillions of dependancies, things that you just assume
> come with UNIX system, are often pretty Linux only. I had to compile gcc
> with sun's cc, then get gtk+, which needed other stuff.. etc etc..

I would have thought autoconf automake would take care of this for you?

> I've got some HD space issues preventing me playing much with stuff with
> Linux at home, once I sort the space I'll have an easier time playing.

I'm planning on getting a new HD soon - 8.4Gb is now under 100UKP all in.
It's too cheap for me not to!

Cheers,

Alex.

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