Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:16 UTC, submitted by Raffaele
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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I may be entirely wrong here, however isn't the Firefox port for RiscOS done through an X Server? As far as I know the idea with that is to slowly add native WIMP menus etc, and such a path towards a native app could presumably also work on the AmigaOS. Even if that's not the case, however, the presence of a modern wordprocessor on the OS4 desktop (instead of having to switch over to Linux) will do a lot to alleviate one of the two main gaps the platform has in terms of software (the other being a modern browser, which this project has started to provide). I suppose you could think of it a bit like WINE - some people wouldn't use Linux exclusively if they couldn't run a few essential Windows applications, and WINE facilitates this. Of course, an X11-based port is better as it offers the opportunity to slowly integrate the software into the OS more.
>most X11 programs won't run well (or at all) without SWAP, something OS4 does not offer
The updated virtual memory system for OS4 supports paging to disk. From what I understand, this isn't enabled in the current release as it's undergoing more extensive testing, and will be released as an update at some point in the future.