beacon
Servo
beacon | Servo | |
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10 | 134 | |
133 | 26,149 | |
1.5% | 1.3% | |
0.0 | 10.0 | |
about 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
C++ | Rust | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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beacon
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Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now display Google Docs
I readily admit that cooking the mozconfig is some holy hell, but they do have real-world examples in the repo; did you experience problems at that stage, or it literally wouldn't compile?
And while I haven't tried Ungoogled-Chromium, for unrelated reasons I helped an OSS project build their Brave-derivative in a container, so that may interest you: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/Dockerfile The only reason it's not already GitHub Actions for them is the chromium_src is 38GB and GHA cache is capped at 10G, but while digging up the link to that Dockerfile, I was reminded that there is a GHA for the macos build: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-mac...
- Handshake/DANE Support For Android
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A walkthrough on how to build Chromium from source!
While not exactly the same audience, one may find the Dockerfile for building Beacon handy as (a) more code, less talking (b) since Beacon is just a patched Chromium, its dependencies should be a superset of vanilla Chromium
- How Do You Update Beacon Browser?
- r/ethereum - Beacon browser - A first-class browsing experience for a decentralized internet built with web technologies and secured without third parties.
- Beacon: a new Chromium-Based Browser for Linux and Android
- Beacon browser - A first-class browsing experience for a decentralized internet built with web technologies and secured without third parties.
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Show HN: We launched a new web browser
Why are you swallowing "error" from invoking the "reall" tool? That seems like a great way to make contributors really frustrated: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...
and again https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...
This trend of "I'm going to invent some build tool because there are not enough build tools in the world" is evidently leaking out of the node ecosystem
For clarity, I did see that this was inspired by the brave-browser model, but of the ones to draw inspiration from, that's for sure not it given that their CI is closed source and they're trying to use npm in lieu of a more structured, comprehensible system
I like trying out alternate browsers, so congratulations on the launch, and I'll for sure try to build it, but I wanted to draw these to your attention because my experience with software is that error handling is about 80% of the job
Servo
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GitHub Sponsor the Servo Rust project!
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
- Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
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CSS for Printing to Paper
> Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?
Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.
I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months
Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.
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The Ladybird Browser Project
Great to see some competition still alive in browser engine development. See also Servo (previously part of Mozilla) https://servo.org/ - that and Ladybird are still very underdeveloped compared to every day browsers.
It's a huge shame that there are no nightly builds of ladybird to try out but I assume that's because they just don't want the bug reports (if everything doesn't work it's pointless getting random bugs filed).
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Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting a Well-Deserved Reboot
I haven't messed with it yet but from looking into it, this should absolutely work.
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-on-ARM-desktop-...
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An open-source browser engine written in Rust
don't know, there was a downtime in 2021 and 22 but since 2023, contributions look back to where it was before .. https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors
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Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
The world has moved on though to opinionated tools, and Rust isn't even the furthest in that direction (That would be Go). The equivalent of those two lines in Cargo.toml would be this example of a basic configuration from the jacoco-maven-plugin: https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.x... - That's 40 lines in the section to do the "defaults".
Yes, you could add a load of config for files to include/exclude from coverage and so on, but the idea that that's a norm is way more common in Java projects than other languages. Like here's some example Cargo.toml files from complicated Rust projects:
Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/Cargo.toml
rust-gdext: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext/blob/master/godot-core/C...
ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/Cargo.toml
socketio: https://github.com/1c3t3a/rust-socketio/blob/main/socketio/C...
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
1. Servo
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❓ Is Google flagging activity from Firefox and targeting uBlock?
It won't don't worry. There already are forks, for the worst case scenario. And Servo is on its way. Not yet ready, but it will be. Originally, from Mozilla kitchen.
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Populating the page: how browsers work
To pain broad strokes, the layout phase (~= take the HTML, take the CSS, determine the position and size of boxes) is largely sequential in production browser engine today. Selector matching (~= what CSS applies to what element) is parallel in Firefox today, via the Stylo Rust crate originally developed in the research browser engine Servo. Servo can do parallel layout in some capacity (but doesn't implement everything), https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep... is an interesting and recent document on the matter.
Parallel layout is generally considered to be a complex engineering problem by domain experts.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en... is a really cool article that is related, that is a few years old but what it says is largely correct today.
What are some alternatives?
tersenet - A new type of JavaScript-free light-weight fast browser built on rst and web assembly. Does not actually exist.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
ungoogled-chromium-macos - macOS packaging for ungoogled-chromium
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
vimium - The hacker's browser.
qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
dom-examples - Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages
xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
libjs-test262 - ✅ Tools for running the test262 ECMAScript test suite with SerenityOS's JavaScript engine (LibJS)
Fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software