Well it's a slow journey, but WebLinux got one step closer to the next release last night... we now have a working BIOS.

It may not look like much but it does:

• Set window styling
  
• Determine the connection rate between the system and the server
  
• Load a hardware config file from the server
  
• Enable XMLHttpRequests to be made even in browsers that don't suppert XMLHttpRequest (or ActiveX)
  
• Setup some pointers for objects that need to be accessed, but aren't necessarily standardised cross browser
  
• Load the harddrives
  
• Implement basic ACPI events and translate window events to ACPI calls
  
• Send global errors to an ACPI error event handler which the kernel will be able to access
  
• nulls out a bunch of object variables and functions that are not needed and could be security holes
  
• Add the ability to write protect objects (thereby preventing random apps from say, deleting the running kernel instance)
  
• Load the harddrives before the bootloader is called; thereby enabling Grub to read from /boot/grub/menu.lst - which it now does
  
• Creates a system clock; so javascripts setTimeout and setInterval are no longer required in the kernel or any applications or libraries
  
• Looks Cool
  

Of course the big thing is that it works in every browser I've been able to test it in:

• IE6/7
  
• Firefox 2/3
  
• Opera something - whatever the current version is
  
• Konqueror/KHTML
  
• WebKit (specifically Midori, which from experience if it works there then Google Chrome and Safari will work too)
  
• Epiphany
  

Not suprisingly it doesn't work in Dillo, or anything else without javascript support.

And I'll get back to working with Grub.