ladybird
WebKit
ladybird | WebKit | |
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19 | 151 | |
1,562 | 7,456 | |
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8.9 | 10.0 | |
over 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
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BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | - |
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ladybird
- The illusion of free choice
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Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
A browser is not a web app, it doesn't have a strict separation of "frontend" and "backend" in the same sense that a web app would have; the lines are drawn quite differently. The rendering engine is never "just" the rendering engine; you can't abstract or swap it without tremendous effort.
If you'd like to learn more about how a web browser project would organize its internal architecture, but are discouraged by the complexity of Chromium, Firefox, etc. I'd recommend source diving Ladybird (https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird), NetSurf (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/), or Dillo (https://www.dillo.org/).
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What Beta-Browsers are you all looking forward to have an official release?
I'd love to see a stable version of a brand new web browser, not based on Blink or Gecko, such as Ladybird or Flow Browser. Competition is a good thing.
- The Ladybird Web Browser
- What's the status of Servo right now?
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Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now display Google Docs
note, native Windows is not currently supported:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird/issues/113
- Github.com on Ladybird, new browser with JavaScript/CSS/SVG engines from scratch
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Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
Google is dominating, pushing through Android and via Googles-Webservices and Microsoft is using it now. A reason to worry because developing new web-engine requires an big effort. For instance Microsoft only allows usage of Microsoft Teams Web with a webbrowser based upon Blink. So were back in 2002?
WebKit features also WebKit2Gtk (Epiphany) and Qt5-webkit (Otter) with native integration. They use the native toolkits, which is an advantage! Interaction with the open-source community around WebKit seems rather good and the engine is integrated by others. Gecko seem not to be integrated by others, but by forks only? You remember when Chrome was considered slick and fast? Originally Google used the native toolkit on every platform but know they use an own solution on every platform, like Firefox.
Maybe there is a new kid on the block:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird
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In light of the recent news about Google’s war on adblockers, I’ve made a poster of sort
Funny you should ask: https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird
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Sounds like fun for Web Developers ...
I've not heard of Ladybird before. True, it's a free and open browser engine and a very interesting project!
WebKit
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GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes
Multiple engineers are working on adding it back: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed...
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HTML Streaming and DOM Diffing Algorithm
Since 2023 Chrome announced the View Transition API, and it looks like Safari is also going to support it soon.
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Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
One heap per type.
Here’s an allocator optimized for that use case.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/bmalloc/li...
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Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
To use this in Bun, you’d have to start Bun with the environment variable “BUN_JSC_useDollarVM=1” and then $vm.createBuiltin(mySourceCodeString)
When using this intrinsic, if any of the arguments are incorrect or it cannot otherwise enable it, the entire process will probably crash. In debug builds of JSC it will have a nicer assertion failure but that is not enabled in release builds
Example code: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/17351231b4dedb62d81721...
also happy to answer any questions about Bun
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Ah, good, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Chrome Devtools Protocol! (fka Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol)
I love this API for almost everything browser related. I built my RBI product atop this (BrowserBox: https://dosyago.com), and I think it's a drastically underrated API.
Also, it works out of the box in Edge, Brave, Chromium, and many parts of CRDP are supported by Firefox and Safari^1
1: See for example: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/main/Source/JavaScript...
- WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
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Disabling iOS Personalized Ads tells kernel to kill daemon every 3 seconds
No, it's unrelated.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/064df1a9f395f8c6e32c...
- Apple's Safari browser is still vulnerable to Spectre attacks
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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
It's being worked on now: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/17320
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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
It is different. The cross-site navigation flag is a couple of years old. It was enabled by default for iOS in November 2018 for example https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/e191fc8c412850cb9fd0...
What are some alternatives?
wpt - Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5
netsurf - netsurf
cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers
browser-base - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
fingerprintjs - Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.
servoshell - A work-in-progress user interface for Servo, built in Rust.
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
splitbrowser - Split Browser - a minimalistic, ultra-lightweight, open source web browser based on WebKit/Ultralight/native webview with a split screen (tiled) view
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.