Netsurf 3.10 for IRIX

[Unxmaal]

The SGI User Group is pleased to announce the initial port of the latest version of Netsurf (3.10) to IRIX as part of SGUG-RSE.

This marks the fourth component the SGUG team wanted for providing as close to a "daily driver" experience for IRIX as is possible.

• Chat: pidgin for discord and IRC
• Email: claws-mail
• Browser: Netsurf 3.10
• Terminal: mrxvt (among others)

If you'd like to build it yourself, find the spec file and patch here: https://github.com/.../tree/wipnonautomated/packages/netsurf

For the lazy,

• get RSE https://github.com/sgidevnet/sgug-rse
• create /usr/sgug/etc/yum.repos.d/dandyum.repo

[dandyum] name=Simple Sgugrse - baseurl=http://dandyum2.irix.fun/repos/007 enabled=1 metadata_expire=1d repo_gpgcheck=0 type=rpm gpgcheck=0 #gpgkey=file:///usr/sgug/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sgugrse-- skip_if_unavailable=False

• Install netsurf

sudo tdnf clean all && sudo tdnf install netsurf


Netsurf 3.10 on IRIX seems stable, if a little slow. Although this version includes Duktape for Javascript, Javascript doesn't yet work according to Netsurf docs.

Most websites that aren't exclusively based on JS work. There are some rendering oddities.

Most importantly, SSL sites work.

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[stormy]

Absolutely amazing thank you