OWB 1.9 is AWESOME! (1.10 is Now Available)

Hey guys. If you have OWB installed, and if you run AmiUpdate, you will find that OWB 1.9 is now available.

This version is simply fantastic. (I'm posting this message using it.) If you've been disappointed with previous versions, you have got to give this one a try.

On a related topic, I'd like to show my appreciation to the guys who are working on OWB by donating some money to them. Does anyone know who is doing most of the work? (I know that both Andrea and Joerg are working on this project together, but I'm not sure if one or the other is dedicating more time to it.)

Edit: 1.10 is now available. Get it while its hot!

Yes, it is a lot better now. It's progressing well. However, I've already hit a few hiccups (documented in the news article comments over on AW.net). And, I've had my first crash too.

Normally I wouldn't post a crashlog here, but I'm rather tired right now, so here's the log:
Crash log for task "OWB"
Generated by GrimReaper 52.3
Crash occured in module OWB at address 0x7F5B6318
Type of crash: DSI (Data Storage Interrupt) exception

Register dump:
GPR (General Purpose Registers):
0: 00000000 68F124A0 00000000 00000000 68D18B5C 00000001 00000030 00000001
8: 8000000F 68D1B494 8000000A 00000133 42004044 6AB6EAF0 6AB66A5C 6AB669D4
16: 0160086C 016007F0 6A8F34FC 00340014 00000001 00000000 000002D0 00000000
24: 68F12C60 6A8F351C 68BA7C98 00000001 68D18B5C 68CDA214 6AB284EC 00000000


FPR (Floating Point Registers, NaN = Not a Number):
0: nan 1.20287e+12 0 960
4: 720 -7.88885e-10 3.8598e-06 0
8: -8.86216e-11 -0.00392924 4.5036e+15 1.013
12: 2.14748e+09 280 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0
24: 1e+61 1e-59 0.5 4.5036e+15
28: nan 65536 1.67772e+07 1.20287e+09

FPSCR (Floating Point Status and Control Register): 0x82028000


SPRs (Special Purpose Registers):
Machine State (msr) : 0x0000F030
Condition (cr) : 0x22004042
Instruction Pointer (ip) : 0x7F5B6318
Xtended Exception (xer) : 0x20000000
Count (ctr) : 0x7F5B8C50
Link (lr) : 0x7F5B8C70
DSI Status (dsisr) : 0x40000000
Data Address (dar) : 0x00000000



680x0 emulated registers:
DATA: 00000001 1AA5C5FC 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
ADDR: 6A088720 6BA7E434 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 68F12260
FPU0: 0 0 0 0
FPU4: 0 0 0 0



Symbol info:
Instruction pointer 0x7F5B6318 belongs to module "OWB" (HUNK/Kickstart)

Stack trace:
module OWB at 0x7F5B6318 (section 5 @ 0x2BA2F8)
module OWB at 0x7F5B8C70 (section 5 @ 0x2BCC50)
module OWB at 0x7F5B874C (section 5 @ 0x2BC72C)
module OWB at 0x7F5B6298 (section 5 @ 0x2BA278)
module OWB at 0x7F40B1E0 (section 5 @ 0x10F1C0)
module OWB at 0x7F40B368 (section 5 @ 0x10F348)
module OWB at 0x7F4C6538 (section 5 @ 0x1CA518)
module OWB at 0x7F4C661C (section 5 @ 0x1CA5FC)
module OWB at 0x7F3397D4 (section 5 @ 0x3D7B4)
module OWB at 0x7F33FC70 (section 5 @ 0x43C50)
module OWB at 0x7F33E65C (section 5 @ 0x4263C)
module OWB at 0x7F60D32C (section 5 @ 0x31130C)
module OWB at 0x7F60DC14 (section 5 @ 0x311BF4)
module OWB at 0x7F5F9A94 (section 5 @ 0x2FDA74)
module OWB at 0x7F5F9B40 (section 5 @ 0x2FDB20)
module OWB at 0x7F5FB44C (section 5 @ 0x2FF42C)
module OWB at 0x7F5C4080 (section 5 @ 0x2C8060)
module OWB at 0x7F2FD9B8 (section 5 @ 0x1998)
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00000de4
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00002380
native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x000028e0
_start()+0x180 (section 1 @ 0x180)
native kernel module kernel+0x00035be0
native kernel module kernel+0x00035c60


PPC disassembly:
7f5b6310: 48000064 b 0x7F5B6374
7f5b6314: 80690020 lwz r3,32(r9)
*7f5b6318: 81230000 lwz r9,0(r3)
7f5b631c: 81290070 lwz r9,112(r9)
7f5b6320: 7d2903a6 mtctr r9

System information:

CPU
Model: Motorola MPC 7445/7455 Apollo V2.1
CPU speed: 933 MHz
FSB speed: 133 MHz
Extensions: performancemonitor altivec

@PEB

l have to say it starting to work great on my modest blizzard ppc
looks really great thanks for this l never thought see the day when had os 4 and a decent web browser.




















thanks

WOW! I hadn't tried OWB since like 1.6 or something, but this is much better, although the font spacing seems to be all messed up.

But its great that it now renders to an intuition screen with a proper reaction toolbar!

AWESOME work Joerg and Andrea!

@PEB

Quote:The WebCore/WebKit and the Sand-Labs OWB developers

Andrea did the initial changes required to build OWB for AmigaOS4 and he ported some of the libraries required for OWB like libcurl to OS4, other libraries OWB needs were ported to OS4 by Edgar Schwan, and of course without the SDL port from Richard Drummond the OS4 OWB wouldn't have been possible either.

Except for the ARexx port from Andrea I implemented all OWB 1.x changes, but that's at least partially my fault since I didn't add everything to the SVN server yet, which is unfortunately very problematic since I build OWB on OS4 itself and the OS4 SVN client can't be used for the OWB sources.

@joerg

Great work to both you and andrea,
Its appreciated by all.

Wasnt their talk of webkit being used for Aweb in the past as its engine?
Perhaps it would be an easier job for the AWeb team to throw the OWB engine into Aweb now?

@Curty

Is anyone still working on AWeb (not AWeb Lite)? Sputnik is based on Webkit too, so they could have used that code (which is on Sputnik's website).

Hans

@Hans

yea the aweb guy(s) should be able to benefit from this i guess. lets hope joerg and andrea turns it into something that makes it easy to include in amiga apps.
a mui class would be cool, dunno if it's possible though.

to andrea and joerg, THANX!

@spotUP

Reaction class! Support the native GUI!

Reaction ? that isnt very portable hehe.
Mui for the people. Mui for every amigasystem

@Kicko

Reaction all the way for me. ;)

@Kicko

I agree to use MUI if possible, it is so much more user configurable than reaction. You can choose to use custom screens easier than you can with reaction, and you can also snaphot all your windows to where you want them which Reaction still seems unable to do. You can also choose what fonts you use in MUI and fonts do seem to be OWBs weakness at the moment, some look decidedly Topazish.

A web browser not using MUI does just not seem quite right

Why don't the OWB guys and IBrowse guys join forces.

OWB certainly has the better layout engine and IB already has the GUI. Combining forces would certainly save both teams a lot of effort.


Bill.

a reaction class wouldn't be that bad either, i'd rather use reaction than mui under os4.

combining ibrowse and owb ain't possible i think, as owb is open source, and free, ibrowse is closed source and they want money for it.

MUI/Reaction ?

No. Make it datatypes class so you can use it with both MUI and Reaction GUIs (and everything else + Multiview) f.ex. we have already simplehtml datatype.

At last i can add me to the list of supporters and fans.

This thing is maturing and i LOVE it, keep on doing, this
will be the most antivipated app on OS4 EVER!

I vote for Reaction!

Finally got around downloading this... on the strohmeyer-site...

However, I can't unpack the file! Tried to download a program (7zDec) on OS4 depot to do it, but it says "can't open input file"

What to do?

Oh, and why doesn't my Amiupdate recognise Owb?

@Skov

Firstly, you need to download the 7z decompressor client (http://os4depot.net/share/utility/archive/xad_7z.lha)
and install it. You'll need to reboot in order to use it.

AmiUpdate is an UPDATE mechanism, which means you must have something to update first. If you haven't got 1.8+ installed, then as far as AmiUpdate is concerned, theres nothing to update.

Simon

@Skov

Quote:
If you have installed 7zdev correctly, just drag'n'drop the archive onto your unarc icon.