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Do you know of any independent rendering engines? That's something I'd truly be interested in seeing. It seems like a herculean task to undertake. Edit: Thanks

Do you know of any independent rendering engines? That's something I'd truly be interested in seeing. It seems like a herculean task to undertake. Edit: Thanks very much for the links. This will be a lot of fun testing out. Just responding here to avoid triggering the anti-flamewar protection.

jerf 10y ago
Well, you know how long you've been hearing about Servo, and how it still, to a first approximation, can't render the web? Yeah, they're also bringing up Rust next to it, but... yeah, that's how long it takes. It wasn't easy ten years ago, and a modern browser is at least an order of magnitude more complicated (WebGL, more complicated CSS, JS support, heck I'm not even really counting JS JIT here...).
vertex-four 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by independent. If you just mean not any of the big three and their derivatives, you've got Servo[0], although that's still a herculean effort with direct support from Mozilla in terms of paying people to work on it. On the other end of the spectrum, you've got things like Dillo[1], which don't support much modern HTML/CSS/scripting, but do seem to get on by with far less effort. [0] https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/ [1] http://www.dillo.org/ http://www.dillo.org/
- digi_owl 10y ago
  These days it seems most pages are more JS and CSS than HTML...
evv 10y ago
Microsoft uses its own EdgeHTML in the new "Edge" IE
- PeCaN 10y ago
  I wish they'd open source EdgeHTML. I suspect it's far lighter than Gecko or WebKit, given that its development basically started with “let's rip out half of Trident”.
  - Touche 10y ago
    It probably only compiles on Windows, though.
fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
Not really maintained recently, but there is: https://common-lisp.net/project/closure/ https://common-lisp.net/project/closure/
vmorgulis 10y ago
There is Cocktail written Haxe (can compile to C++): https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail
mappu 10y ago
There's h-smile (commercial) from Terra Informatica, that's used by a lot of antivirus vendors to implement desktop GUI software in HTML. The latest commercial branding for it is called Sciter.

jerf 10y ago

Well, you know how long you've been hearing about Servo, and how it still, to a first approximation, can't render the web? Yeah, they're also bringing up Rust next to it, but... yeah, that's how long it takes. It wasn't easy ten years ago, and a modern browser is at least an order of magnitude more complicated (WebGL, more complicated CSS, JS support, heck I'm not even really counting JS JIT here...).

vertex-four 10y ago

Depends on what you mean by independent. If you just mean not any of the big three and their derivatives, you've got Servo[0], although that's still a herculean effort with direct support from Mozilla in terms of paying people to work on it. On the other end of the spectrum, you've got things like Dillo[1], which don't support much modern HTML/CSS/scripting, but do seem to get on by with far less effort. [0] https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/ [1] http://www.dillo.org/ http://www.dillo.org/

digi_owl 10y ago
These days it seems most pages are more JS and CSS than HTML...

evv 10y ago

Microsoft uses its own EdgeHTML in the new "Edge" IE

PeCaN 10y ago
I wish they'd open source EdgeHTML. I suspect it's far lighter than Gecko or WebKit, given that its development basically started with “let's rip out half of Trident”.
- Touche 10y ago
  It probably only compiles on Windows, though.

fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago

Not really maintained recently, but there is: https://common-lisp.net/project/closure/ https://common-lisp.net/project/closure/

vmorgulis 10y ago

There is Cocktail written Haxe (can compile to C++): https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail https://github.com/silexlabs/Cocktail

mappu 10y ago

There's h-smile (commercial) from Terra Informatica, that's used by a lot of antivirus vendors to implement desktop GUI software in HTML. The latest commercial branding for it is called Sciter.