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splitbrowser
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Floorp is what firefox should be.
My Split Browser features it.
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Creating your own browser (?)
I recommend to try making your own web browser, as long as it brings something new and innovative, not yet another Chromium/Electron clone. For example, I am working on Split Browser which is very lightweight, being made in Qt and including tiling panes and three web engines (WebKit, Ultralight and Edge WebView2). The development is very slow since I don't have much free time, but I am learning a lot of things by implementing them.
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Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Check out my Split Browser (https://github.com/niutech/splitbrowser), currently alpha.
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If webkit is open source why isn't there a good webkit based browser on windows
There are WebKit browsers for Windows: Otter Browser and my Split Browser (alpha).
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Do you think Apple will ever bring Safari back to Windows?
My experimental minimalistic Split Browser has WebKit engine on Windows.
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How do I make a chromium based browser?
I started a cross-platform browser based on Qt, WebKit (Playwright build) and Ultralight - Split Browser. This is how it looks like: screenshot. Maybe you'd like to contribute?
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What Beta-Browsers are you all looking forward to have an official release?
And I'm looking forward to releasing a first stable version of my Split Browser next year, cross-platform and based on three web engines: native, WebKit Nightly and Ultralight.
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Will Epiphany ever improve?
Epiphany is not the only alternative web browser - there are: Konqueror based on KHTML, Otter Browser based on WebKit and my Split Browser (alpha) based on WebKit/Ultralight.
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Midori Browser completely based on Gecko
Browsers engine diversity is a good thing, but I think WebKit would be a better choice than Gecko - it is more lightweight (see Otter Browser vs Firefox) and there is lack of a modern WebKit browser on Windows (apart from my Split Browser, still in infancy). Good luck!
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Browser Grid Layout Availability
This is exactly what my Split Browser does (still work in progress, see screenshot).
Ultralight
- Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
[2] https://ultralig.ht/
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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:
https://coherent-labs.com/
https://ultralig.ht/
https://sciter.com/
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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.
What are some alternatives?
midori-desktop
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
ladybird - The Ladybird web browser
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
qt-ultralight-browser - Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
Floorp - The most of source code of version 10 or later of Floorp Browser, the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative 🦊
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
bonbon-web-browser - BonBon Web Browser
ClassicUO - ClassicUO - an open source implementation of the Ultima Online Classic Client.
browser-base - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
litehtml - Fast and lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine