New Info on Haiku WiFi Stack
Stephen B. - March 29th, 2009
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Ithamar Adema (Colacoder) recently added a new project to OsDrawer – with the goal of creating a working WiFi stack for Haiku. Ithamar is using code from FreeBSD as a starting point, he has also put out a request who can help with the development. It’s great to see some progress made on bringing WiFi support to Haiku – it’s also listed as a potential project for the 2009 Summer of Code. While BeOS has had good support for wired networking for some time now, wireless networking has become essential to most laptop and “netbook” users. The news was first spotted by DaaT at IsComputerOn and Karl over at HaikuWare – Karl also pointed out that there is HaikuWare bounty for wireless support.
A small update has been made to the way that comments are displayed, particularly the way that comment threading is handled. While it did involve a fair amount of work behind the scenes, the visible changes are largely aesthetic – everything should continue to work the same way. This is mainly just a quick heads-up in case anyone spots problems resulting from the changes (if so, please let me know in the comments). If anyone is interested in the reasons for the change, or the technical details, please “read more.”
As seen on the mailing list (and on HaikuWare) Ryan Leavengood has started a thread to try to see if there are enough motivated developpers to work on the creation of an Haiku native browser. One year ago, Ryan succeded in porting the WebKit to Haiku (completing HaikuWare’s bounty) but since then nothing has realy been made out of it. In his efforts he was helped by Andrea Anzani and Stephan Aßmus. In the mean time tough the WebKit code evolved and the actual code should be ported again (eased by the work previously done). Discussions were also raised on wether or not port Cairo, Firefox, Chrome, what about the BeZilla Browser, etc. Nice initiative guys, we definitively need a technologically up-to-date NetPositive like app for our Haiku.
As read here on the Haiku Gazette work has been done on renewing a bit the GUI appearence. After some evolving discussions in the forums (here and there) Denis Washington started work on the rendering code to make our UI look better as proposed in forum’s mockups. He now have a diff patch (which is still work in progress) but once applied it changes Haiku look to something like this:
More information about the patch and how it evolves in this forum thread. Wanna see a before / after comparison ? Head over here.
As read in HaikuWare this morning I was very excited learning that we now have Flash running under Haiku !
Adrian Panasiuk which took the Flash bounty has completed a prototype (still statically linked) based on Gnash proving that we are not that far from having a integrated product. One shadow tough: “many youtube videos don’t work with gnash also on linux“… Anyway: Big Big Kudos in getting us as far as the Linux guys :-) ! More detail @ Haikuware.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a few tweaks to the All Comments page (first introduced back in January). The most visible change is that users can now create new discussion threads, making it behave a bit more like a normal forum – simply click the “Post a new Topic” link on the All Comments page. At present, you have to be registered and logged-in before you can start a new discussion – which was done partly because it was easier, and partly to prevent it from becoming a gateway for spam (there have been close to 36,000 spam comments posted here, although filters have caught most of them). Replies can still be posted without logging-in, however. Discussions / threads created by users are shown on the All Comments page, with a slightly different colour to distinguish them from comments on frontpage posts. I’ve put together a short introductory post with a few more details. If you have any feedback, suggestions, or if you spot any bugs (highly likely), please let me know in the comments.
According to an announcement made on HaikuWare back on Valentine’s day, a developer by the name of Adrian Panasiuk has taken up the challenge of porting Gnash (an open-source Flash player) to Haiku. From the announcement:
While the completion date does sound a bit optimistic, it’s still very encouraging to find out that there is active development to get Flash working in Haiku. Whether you love it or loathe it, the simple reality is that Flash has become a de facto standard for online video delivery.
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