Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:16 UTC, submitted by Raffaele
Amiga & AROS AbiWord 2.5.1 has been released for AmigaOS4 using Cygnix. Besides AbiWord's usual word processing features, this package also includes a KHTML-based browser for AmigaOS4. "Additionally, for displaying the online help files the KHTML based browser, 'osb-browser', is included! This browser has following features: standards compliant (x)html rendering engine with CSS support; Javascript support; SSL support."
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Just so you know...
by Leo43 on Tue 17th Apr 2007 20:19 UTC
Leo43
Member since:
2006-06-26

Just so you know, this isn't a native port.

Someone "only" made work an X11 server for OS4 and recompiled AbiWord so that it may run within this X11 server... Nothing more, nothing less.

(And just so you know, this server is a direct recompilation of something that has been working on AmigaOS 3.x since at least a decade...)

RE: Just so you know...
by cygnusEd on Tue 17th Apr 2007 23:43 in reply to "Just so you know..."
cygnusEd Member since:
2007-04-17

I aggree, that it had to be mentioned, that it only runs on an X11 server,
but why so negative? Do you have any idea, how much work it was, to make
this possible? It was much more, than starting a compiler. AmigaOS 4 is not
Linux and not AmigaOS 3.x.

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RE[2]: Just so you know...
by corto on Wed 18th Apr 2007 12:38 in reply to "RE: Just so you know..."
corto Member since:
2005-08-30

alex : thanks for the information to fretinator.

cyngusEd : Do you want to know why Leo43 is so negative ? Because he has no hope in the Amiga and does not accept the current situation. So he prefers to depreciate things that are done and to point the negative aspects. Maybe it makes regrets sweeter ...

Leo43 : You really sad ! :-(

I just want to say that we miss some leading programs and if in a first time we can run them with X11, this is a good point.

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