Ultralight
qt-ultralight-browser
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Ultralight
- Writing a TrueType font renderer
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Ode to the M1
> I hope Electron/CEF die soon, and people get back to building applications that don't consume hundreds of megabytes of RAM to render a hello world.
Web technologies are fine, but what we really need is some kind of lightweight browser which allows you to use HTML/CSS/JS, but with far lower memory usage. I found https://ultralig.ht/ which seems to be exactly what I am looking for, but the license is a major turn off for most paid services. It makes sense for smaller, indie projects to adopt it, but I haven't seen many "desktop apps" using this in the wild.
What I'd really like to see with CEF et al, is JS being dropped, in favor of directly controlling the DOM from the host language. Then we could, for example, write a Rust (or Kotlin, Zig, Haskell, etc) desktop application that simply directly manipulated the DOM, and had it rendered by a HTML+CSS layout engine. Folks could then write a React-like framework for that language (to help render & re-render the DOM in an elegant way).
Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems to have a decent bit of activity). It would be great if some group of devs could revive the project, or a company could fund such a revival.
Eventually, we'll need to reflect on, and explore whether HTML+CSS is really the best way to do layout, and we could maybe perhaps consider proting the Android/iOS layout approach over to desktop.
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Remember when this was 0% and 70 mb? This is comical.
tauri exists or if you wanted to ultralig.ht
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
I agree web stuff is really the best way to develop UIs. Good luck making responsive stuff in C++ for example. The paradigm of HTML, CSS, and JS is extremely powerful and even allows you to use canvas, webgpu, wasm.
There are multiple commercial projects that use web dev paradigm for GUIs:
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what do you think about alternative browser engines?
Nice review, thanks! There are also: Ultralight (based on Webkit), LiteHTML, Tkhtml3 and Lobo Evolution. See also timeline of web engines.
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Recommendations for JS Engines that could be embedded in my Game Engine
I have used https://ultralig.ht/, which uses web tech stack to render ui for desktop applications. It can be used in video games, so I assume the js engine has acceptable performance. It is based on webkit though.
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[Cpp] Une assez grande liste de bibliothèques graphiques C ++
Ultralight
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core-js maintainer: “So, what’s next?”
The more he mentions examples of huge websites using corejs the more it makes sense to me for corejs to have a license model similar to Ultralight, wherein you pay the software if your company crosses a certain revenue threshold.
qt-ultralight-browser
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Chromium-based browser dev - features?
If you think most Chromium-based browsers are bloated, you're right. Try some lightweight alternatives: Pale Moon, Otter Browser, MetaDock or my pre-alpha Qt Ultralight Browser.
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How difficult it is to build a browser kernel ?
Yeah, that's why I am making a web browser based on it called Qt Ultralight Browser. Contributions are welcome!
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Is there any browser that has that old interface (~90s, ~2000s, for example), that can be use nowadays?
I am also working on Qt Ultralight Browser with a classic chrome, stay tuned.
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New browsers
There are: Flow Browser, Stack Browser, Nux, Holla, MicroWeb, Puppy Browser and my Qt Ultralight Browser (WIP).
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Any WebKit browsers for windows 10?
Apart from Otter Browser, there is Playwright with a recent WebKit mini browser and my Qt Ultralight Browser based on Ultralight (which also have a browser sample in their repo).
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I am making an ultra-lightweight web browser for desktop using Qt and Ultralight, the homepage uses only 68 MB of RAM, I am looking for contributors.
The prebuilt x64 binary is available here (zip).
What are some alternatives?
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
Thorium-Win - Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine
FNA3D - FNA3D - 3D Graphics Library for FNA
mcpelauncher-manifest - The main repository for the Linux and Mac OS Bedrock edition Minecraft launcher.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Flexx - Write desktop and web apps in pure Python
NetSparkle - NetSparkle is a C# cross-platform software update framework for .NET developers compatible with .NET 4.6.2/.NET 6+, WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia; uses Ed25519 or DSA signatures! View basic usage here in the README or visit our website for code docs.