[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2022 9:43 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> Joukj schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022 um 08:54:04 UTC+1:
>> Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>>> Joukj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 12:47:42 UTC+1:
>>>> Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>>>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1:
>>>>>> But it is 25 years old - older than VMS NetScape. There must
>>>>>> be a lot of missing features in 2022.
>>>>> Well, we could live with very old standards. We need no fancy stuff at all.
>>>>> If we just could find the source for one of the last browser versions compiled for Itanium we would dive into it and see what's coming out on X86.
>>>>> That would be far better than having nothing at all.
>>>> Some info is at (I did not test the compilation) at
>>>>
>>>> https://openvms-opensource.blogspot.com/2019/03/secure-web-browser-source.html
>>>>
>>>>  From the same location as the CSWB sources I could download in the past
>>>> the sources of the firefox port for itanium.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the link. I missed it. I have some difficulties in accessing the sources but we will give it further tries.

>> All the sources are on "old" sites of HP. So i'm not sure if they are
>> present there. Anyway I have copies, but I have no idea if we can
>> distribute them.

> Your assumption seems true. None of the links that I found is still alive.
> Would be great, if you could help me.

It should be possible to get it.

HP distributed the binary. The source code is under MPL.
MPL require anyone providing a binary also providing
the source.

So HPE cannot say no.

But finding someone in HPE that understands MPL, knows where the
source is and has authority to make it available may not be easy.

But maybe someone saved it somewhere.

And then you need to get it working. And it is a larger code
base than Mosaic.

Arne