Re: Browser for Alpha Linux?

[Ron Farrer <uct fidalgo net>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Dan Morrill wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Charles Taylor wrote:
> 
> > On a related note, has anyone been able to get the newer Mozilla
> > sources (linked against GTK) to build and run?  I've had no luck with
> > anything except 100898 and lesstif.
> 
> I've been trying fairly regularly and following the development;  I even
> submitted a one-character patch to configure.in to detect ALL alphas rather
> than alpha-unknown-linux-gnu (i.e. I changed alpha-*-linux* to
> alpha*-*-linux*);  CVS revision 1.173 is the Dan Morrill version of
> configure.in.  :)
> 
> Anyway, yes, it builds and "runs", at least as well as it does on any Linux
> platform.  It handles the test pages fine, and does them well enough to amaze
> you with its speed and standards support (my personal favorite is the table
> embedded on an HTML 4.0 button with a background image), but it does not yet
> approach something like a useable browser.
> 
> In other words, Mozilla for Linux/Alpha is at parity with Mozilla for
> Linux/Intel.  There are no 64-bit issues, so as soon as it's ready for any
> platform, it'll be ready for the Alpha.
> 
> 
> Dan Morrill
> Computer Scientist, Physicist


That's good to hear! Does anyone know when Mozilla will be finally out of 
beta?

TIA,

Ron Farrer