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Version 2.0.5 “Hackaday” A polish release over 2.0 — the batch of fixes and CSS work that makes modern pages actually look right. The headline is in the name: point MacSurf at hackaday.com and the front page renders on the G3 at real desktop width, with the correct fonts and the article cards...

MacSurf 2.0 has been released! A whole family of cross-signed HTTPS sites now validate on the Mac, including macintoshgarden.org , which loads here over a secure connection. And image-heavy forum pages that used to take a minute or two now come up in a few seconds thanks to viewport-gated lazy...

Releasing tomorrow! https://bsky.app/profile/macsurfos9.bsky.social/post/3mqecwcxirc2b

Getting there! The sidebar rendered stacked below the content instead of beside it. But the visible symptom was misleading. Through instrumentation I figured out: - calc(100% - 270px) resolved correctly to 700px for content; sidebar to 250px. - Both fit on one flex line (700 + 250 = 950 ≤ 970...

IT'S ALIVE! AND IT'S HIDEOUS 😅 Just showing it off so the next screenshot when it's a bit cleaner feels impressive

I've gotten a lot of work done with compatibility with loading 68kmla and have now begun debugging macsurf loading tinkerdifferent! The next release focuses on the forums we all love. While both are powered by xenforo, for one reason or another it does not want to load tinkerdifferent at all. I...

Hey everyone, I've been chipping away at a project for a while now, and with the recent release of version 1.4, I figured it was finally time to share it here and get some wider testing. It’s called MacSurf. It’s a native Mac OS 9 browser built from a fork of NetSurf, compiled in CodeWarrior...