Node.js Brought To BeOS-Inspired Haiku Open-Source OS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Node.js Brought To BeOS-Inspired Haiku Open-Source OS

Haiku as the open-source operating system that still maintains BeOS compatibility continues tacking on modern features and support for software well past the days of BeOS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nodejs-Haiku-Works

[Guest]

This is good news. Getting v8 working on Haiku could lead to it getting a usable web browser.

[Vistaus]

This is good news. Getting v8 working on Haiku could lead to it getting a usable web browser.

So Falkon/QupZilla isn't usable? If so, then why does the KDE Team even bother making it the default browser an KDE? I've used Falkon/QupZilla on Haiku and it's pretty damn usable for me, esp. with extensions and user scripts enabled.

[Guest]

So Falkon/QupZilla isn't usable? If so, then why does the KDE Team even bother making it the default browser an KDE? I've used Falkon/QupZilla on Haiku and it's pretty damn usable for me, esp. with extensions and user scripts enabled.

The last time I messed around with web browsers, only one of them was near usability, but it used a quite outdated build of webkit.

If it doesn't run Chromium, it's not suitable for web development, and that comes from someone that uses Firefox as a main web browser. Unfortunately, it leads in almost every way, especially when it comes to development experience. Irrelevant webkit browsers are just irrelevant. Nobody targets thes, and their feature set. If you go to a website and it works, it's either old, or it's a coincidence it matches what the browser supports. These days it's just Chromium, and Firefox as the other browser you're supposed to get working.

[Vistaus]

The last time I messed around with web browsers, only one of them was near usability, but it used a quite outdated build of webkit.

If it doesn't run Chromium, it's not suitable for web development, and that comes from someone that uses Firefox as a main web browser. Unfortunately, it leads in almost every way, especially when it comes to development experience. Irrelevant webkit browsers are just irrelevant. Nobody targets thes, and their feature set. If you go to a website and it works, it's either old, or it's a coincidence it matches what the browser supports. These days it's just Chromium, and Firefox as the other browser you're supposed to get working.

Falkon/QupZilla is based on QtWebEngine, so it's based on Chromium, but it doesn't support Chrome extensions yet.

[PluMGMK]

So it's like we're back to the bad old days with NS and MSIE?