After quite a long hiatus, a new version of the Atari webbrowser Highwire has been released in version 0.5.0.
The release notes from their website:
This is the first HighWire in a very long time, and it carries roughly a year of work. The headline is SSL/TLS support through Mbed TLS (TLS 1.2 and 1.3), so you can finally reach the secure HTTPS web from your Atari. Alongside it: tabbed browsing, a single modern toolbar in place of the old GEM navigation, settings, fonts and cache moved out of dialog boxes into real pages you can read and edit, a proper DOM tree underpinning layout, CSS Grid and Flexbox, downloadable web fonts, and SVG and WebP images.
System requirements for Highwire 0.5.0 (snipped from Highwire website as well):
- 68030 or faster CPU; a 68060 is strongly suggested.
- A Speedo-capable GDOS โ SpeedoGDOS, NVDIย 3+, or fVDI.
- A MiNT-net or STiK/STinG stack (modules included).
- Plenty of free ST and TT RAM โ modern pages are large.
Highwire 0.5.0 in Falcon standard 640*480 VGA resolution, Atariscne want more pixels!
Comments
many thanks for taking on Highwire again.
The web has changed a fair bit since it was last updated, often with much larger display area in mind. Would it be possible to "fake" higher resolution by scaling all graphics (and font size) to 50% ? I think it would make it a lot more usable on these old TT/Falcon resolutions.
Highwire . . . LowWire vs HighWire 0.5.0 Beta