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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This is correct, and it's why most open-source software will never have much in the way of users:
> They're written from the perspective of the developers
And I get it. A few years back I had an open-source project [1] get users and it was terrible. What had previously been a fun technical exercise became a pain in the ass that felt a lot like actual work. I was relieved when my hardware broke and I had an excuse to archive the project.
But that does create a huge gap that mostly gets filled by commercial interests.
[1] https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
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Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
It seems like you haven't quite got the concept of open source. If everybody consumes and nobody contributes, how long will that last?
A while back I bought a cheap robot vacuum. Their scheduling feature didn't meet my needs, so I reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced a cron-friendly CLI tool and a library so people could do other things with it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
Honestly, this was a mistake on my part. It was a demanding audience of home-automation hobbyists mostly without programming skills. The company was thoroughly unhelpful. When my vacuum finally broke, I was relieved, as I had a good excuse for trying to hand off the project. Nobody stepped up, so I shut it down. I just ran out of interest in doing free work to support a company worth billions.
I really admire the community spirit of open source But it's not sustainable if companies making their money off it keep depending on the niceness and generosity of others without giving back enough to keep them happy, healthy, productive people.
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XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
I reverse-engineered the comms for my cheap Ecovacs robot vacuum and was surprised to discover that, like some angsty teen, it spent all day hanging out in an XMPP chatroom waiting for somebody to talk to it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks/blob/master/developing.md
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!
What are some alternatives?
cinny - Yet another matrix client
wpt - Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
matrix-bifrost - General purpose bridging with a variety of backends including libpurple and xmpp.js
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
meshnet-lab - Emulate huge mobile ad-hoc mesh networks using Linux network namespaces.
netsurf - netsurf
sh - Python process launching
browser-base - Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
polyjuice_server
servoshell - A work-in-progress user interface for Servo, built in Rust.
selling-partner-api - A PHP client library for Amazon's Selling Partner API
splitbrowser - Split Browser - a minimalistic, ultra-lightweight, open source web browser based on WebKit/Ultralight/native webview with a split screen (tiled) view