Netsurf is not exactly new. The project started in 2002 (or earlier, as part of RISC OS?) and 1.0 was released in 2007 [1]. The last stable release is from 2020.
Acorn's own first-party browser was "Browse". The documentation viewer that came preinstalled on the RiscPC/A7000 machines shared code with this, and that's about as close as one gets to having a "built-in" browser on RISC OS. There were a few others - the ANT Internet Suite had one ("Fresco"), as well as ArcWeb, Oregano, Webite and Webster/WebsterXL.
What the link is basically saying is that the authors considered none of these to be a good basis for further development, and that's why NetSurf was started.
Of the browsers I've listed, I don't recall any of them having source code available, but Browse may have been part of the RISC OS source code that was released. Most of the browsers were commercial, closed-source products.
During my tests after initial installation it didn't prove to be very stable, unfortunately. But then again, it hasn't been advertised as being stable and is still very much work in progress.
This is a port of C based Netsurf ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) whose modular core allows it to be ported to other toolkits. According to the Netsuf website there are frontends for Amiga, Atari, BeOS, Framebuffer, GTK, RiscOS, and even Windows. Debian contains a GTK+ and a framebuffer variant of it in its repositories.
Websurf is thus not a new application written from the gound up in Objective-C but rather a port of Netsurf to the GNUstep GUI framework.
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[1] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/news.html
What the link is basically saying is that the authors considered none of these to be a good basis for further development, and that's why NetSurf was started.
Of the browsers I've listed, I don't recall any of them having source code available, but Browse may have been part of the RISC OS source code that was released. Most of the browsers were commercial, closed-source products.
This is a port of C based Netsurf ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) whose modular core allows it to be ported to other toolkits. According to the Netsuf website there are frontends for Amiga, Atari, BeOS, Framebuffer, GTK, RiscOS, and even Windows. Debian contains a GTK+ and a framebuffer variant of it in its repositories.
Websurf is thus not a new application written from the gound up in Objective-C but rather a port of Netsurf to the GNUstep GUI framework.