[HN Gopher] Dooble Web Browser ___________________________________________________________________ Dooble Web Browser Author : smartmic Score : 26 points Date : 2023-04-08 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (textbrowser.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (textbrowser.github.io) | snvzz wrote: | This is just another browser using Qt's WebEngine (uses | chromium's blink underneath) lib. | | It would be interesting if it was an actual new engine. | | Alternative (non-khtml-derivative nor gecko) open-source engines | sorted by descended perception of liveliness include: | Ladybird[0], NetSurf[1], Links[2] and Dillo[3]. | | 0. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird | | 1. https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ | | 2. http://links.twibright.com/about.php | | 3. https://www.dillo.org/ | jug wrote: | Ladybird is so crazy. How they are accomplishing that much in | this short period of time with their manpower. I mean, it's no | small feat to make a web browser render many of today's | websites. | | I wonder if it's skill or a good underlying rendering | architecture that allows rapid evolution like this. | | I've learnt that reinventing the wheel to "get it right" is | usually a fallacy among junior devs, but I wonder how much | cruft that hampers productivity accumulates in a highly complex | renderer over time. | pipeline_peak wrote: | Writing a browser engine that supports the modern web and run | on personal computers is never going to happen unless there's | some legal intervention. All the examples you've given are | living proof. | | We're at the mercy of Blink and WebKit. The latter only due to | Apples iron grip on iOS browsers. | callumprentice wrote: | https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross- | platform... | | A mammoth task but the Serenity team is making huge progress. | quicklime wrote: | It's not impossible, and the examples listed are living proof | that it is possible. | | People often cite the failure of Edge/Trident - even with the | resources of Microsoft, it's still impossible to compete with | Google. | | But there's a big difference between "competing with Google | and taking significant market share away from Chrome" and | just "writing a browser engine that supports the modern web | and runs on personal computers". The latter is definitely not | impossible. | paulryanrogers wrote: | Page wasn't clear what it is though the GitHub project had this: | | > Dooble is a scientific browser. Minimal, cute, unusually | stable, and available almost everywhere. Completed. | | Guess it's not so completed if they're still updating. | andybak wrote: | What a terrible post and/or landing page (HN's rules probably | hamstrung OP to some degree). | | Absolutely lacking in any context. I'm still unclear about the | "why should I care?" part. | blueflow wrote: | I found it to be a refreshing contrast to all these websites | that try to sell me some software or product. And the sort of | things mentioned in the changelog gives a good impression | about the state of the codebase. | user00012-ab wrote: | There are like 100 new things on HN every day. No one is | really going to look at your page if you give 0 explanation | on what it is or why someone should care. Even a 1 | paragraph about summary would have been useful. | | Even the title here was completely void of any meaning on | what this was. | blueflow wrote: | Its a web browser. | andybak wrote: | We have those. Why is this one interesting or different? | | Heck. What rendering engine is it using? | blueflow wrote: | I found it interesting because it has stability written | on their Github page and the Change log reads like a | matured project. I might try it as replacement for | Firefox. I don't know what you would find interesting. | andybak wrote: | I didn't make it to the changelog because I had nothing | that gave me a sense of whether this was worth digging | into. | masukomi wrote: | I had the same reaction. I came to the comments here hoping | someone had already explained "why i should care" or "why i | should use this". Alas... | stareatgoats wrote: | Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29736882 | (December 30, 2021, 52 comments) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-08 23:00 UTC)