WebPositive

WebPositive

WebPositive r488 in Haiku
Developer(s)	Andrea Anzani, Stephan Aßmus, Rene Gollent, Ryan Leavengood, Michael Lotz, Maxime Simon
Initial release	February 2010
Stable release	r580 / June 1, 2011; 21 months ago (2011-06-01)
Development status	Active
Written in	C++
Operating system	Haiku
Engine	WebKit (Based on KHTML)
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Web browser
License	2-clause BSD License, GNU LGPL
Website	webpositive.haiku-os.org

WebPositive (also called Web+) is the graphical web browser included as part of the Haiku operating system since version R1 / Alpha 2. It was created to replace the aging BeZillaBrowser (a port of Firefox 2) with a native WebKit-based browser.

Currently, there is partial support for HTML5, excluding primarily <audio> and <video> support due to a lack of code in the Media Kit. WebPositive does not currently support any form of plugins, although developer Stephan Aßmus has suggested that he may look into plugin support in the future.

History

In the Google Summer of Code 2009, Maxime Simon, mentored by Ryan Leavengood, was commissioned to work on the WebKit port,^[1] initiated by the work Leavengood had done for a bounty on the Haikuware website.^[2] This led to the development of the HaikuLauncher prototype browser, which demonstrated the functionality of the WebKit rendering engine but did little else.

In February 2010, Stephan Aßmus took on the task of improving the HaikuLauncher web browser to a usable state.^[3] This led to many preview releases before a relatively stable version (r488) was integrated into Haiku R1 / Alpha 2.

The name WebPositive came as a combination of 'Web-', from its WebKit roots, and '-Positive', as it is the Haiku replacement of the NetPositive browser found in BeOS.

As of late 2010, Ryan Leavengood is taking over as the lead developer of WebPositive.

References

External links

• Haiku-WebKit Trac and SVN server