Ryan Leavengood could yesterday report on Haiku-OS.org that the WebKit Haiku port team had been progressing nicely and reached another nice milestone: Their first decent rendering.

After Ryan Leavengood got the webkit to compile, Andrea Anzani has fixed several bugs and implemented font loading and text rendering.

Now what is really the state of the Haiku webkit? First of all, network still doesn't work for the webkit, so BeBits is currently being loaded from disk. The team still need to work out the bugs in the Haiku GCC4 port of CURL. Scrolling is at the moment disabled as they want to do some more work here, and you can therefor see blank spots at the bottom and sides where scroll bars would render. A few rendering bugs are of course still present. The HaikuLauncher is still very basic without any chrome (back and forward buttons, URL bar, status bar, etc.), and the name of the finale browser might be WebPositive.

Andrea Anzani will be joining BeGeistert in January so let us hope that he, together with the Haiku Dev Team, can get the bugs in CURL sorted out!