mosaic
Ultralight
mosaic | Ultralight | |
---|---|---|
5 | 53 | |
101 | 4,597 | |
- | 0.2% | |
0.0 | 2.9 | |
over 1 year ago | 10 days ago | |
TypeScript | CMake | |
MIT License | - |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mosaic
-
What do you think about a lightweight nightly WebKit browser for Windows with split view? I've just made a proof-of-concept in Qt.
If you are making a tiling web browser, there is already Mosaic (not the original one) based on Electron.
-
Looking for beta testers and cofounders
PS. There is another open source web browser based on Electron and React with tiled panes called Mosaic (the name is unfortunate).
-
What if there was a new lightweight open source web browser with split view but without Electron? I've just made a proof-of-concept in Qt.
This is a proof-of-concept of a lightweight cross-platform web browser made in Qt and a native webview (not based on Electron; possibly switching to Ultralight), showing a workspace with multiple panes, which you can arrange as you like. Similar to MetaDock (paid, closed-source, Windows-only) or Mosaic (discontinued, Electron-based). What do you think of it? Would it be useful? If it makes sense to continue it, I will open the source code looking for contributors.
-
Alternatives to Stack Browser
There is Mosaic as well as Rambox, both free.
-
Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks
If you are interested in tab stacks or tiling, check out https://github.com/mlajtos/mosaic
Ultralight
- Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
-
Writing a TrueType font renderer
[2] https://ultralig.ht/
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
-
Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
Web rendering would be Blink, with V8 being the JavaScript engine. I believe they have their own UI rendering process.
I know of another company that does something similar for the UI process, but with WebKit instead as the base:
https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight#rocket-dual-high...
-
Ode to the M1
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.
-
Anselm's Jazz Distributed Infrastructure Framework
I'm curious if the project will be open-source or do you have plans to go the Awesomium/Ultralight route with both open/closed sources and volume licenses? Or do you plan to offer commercial support services like other open source software?
-
Best cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) desktop frameworks?
I’m not tied to any language, but it needs to be able to wrap a c++ library. I started with .NET 7 MAUI - no linux support & very mobile focused. Tried out Electron. Wins on ease and usability, but has massive overhead. (Basic “Hello world” executable compiled to over 200mb) I then discovered Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/). Big win on size, but was last updated 3 years ago.
-
Remember when this was 0% and 70 mb? This is comical.
tauri exists or if you wanted to ultralig.ht
-
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:
https://coherent-labs.com/
https://ultralig.ht/
https://sciter.com/
-
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.
What are some alternatives?
browser-base - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
shell - Pop!_OS Shell
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
browser-ff - Dot Browser for Windows, macOS and Linux
qt-ultralight-browser - Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
community-edition - Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
sidebery - Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
firefox-csshacks - Collection of userstyles affecting the browser
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine