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Do you want to build a web browser or a web browser engine? If you just want to build a web browser, here's my request for a new browser for iOS since web brow

Do you want to build a web browser or a web browser engine? If you just want to build a web browser, here's my request for a new browser for iOS since web browsing on iOS is a second or third rate experience: - Built-in ad-blocking. - A way to disable JavaScript immediately for any website. - A desktop mode that actually works, so that YouTube, Reddit, Imgur and other sites don't redirect me to their crappy mobile site without asking. - Launches a completely separate app for private browsing. Right now I use Dolphin browser on iOS and despite being in desktop mode, I still have to refresh every YouTube page that I land on in order to get the desktop style native HTML5 video player that allows me to go full-screen. On Imgur, gifv files don't play - I have to change the extension to gif and then wait 60 seconds as it downloads. Lots of other sites have similar types of issues. Meanwhile, gifv files work fine in Brendan Eich's "Brave" browser. It could be as easy to fix as just changing the user-agent. Dolphin has good ad-blocking, but there is no way to quickly turn off JavaScript for a given page or domain (ala Quick JavaScript Switcher for Chrome). The thing that really annoys me though about Dolphin is that Private Browsing does not work at all. That's probably because they want you to buy Dolphin Zero for $2.99.

speg 10y ago
I checked out Brave yesterday for the first time and I think it does most of those things.
- WayneBro 10y ago
  Brave has a desktop mode that mostly works and a built-in adblocker. It does not have a `quick JS disable` button. It also doesn't have a speed dial that I can manually add items to, which is one very important item that I forgot to mention earlier. What I really want to do is make an open source browser that I can compile and put on my iOS devices myself too, without going to the app store. Then I could add all sorts of features and extensions without having to ask Apple.
softawre 10y ago
3 dollars? It really annoys you and you can't be bothered to spend 3 dollars?
- WayneBro 10y ago
  For a web browser? You really want to pay 3 dollars for a web browser? Also - Are you really surprised that people balk at paying for things that were once free? Really???? Furthermore, Dolphin has a "Private Mode" and it does not work at all. It's a lie. They are clearly trying to steer you towards their Zero browser. I don't give 3 dollars to companies who try to play me like that. Nope. No, no way. Uh-uh. Forget it. For now, I just use Brave for private browsing and Dolphin for public browsing. I actually want an open source one and I'm thinking about building it myself too. Looks like Brave is open source AND it's built with Swift which is exactly what I was going to do. I can just take that and rip out all the crap and add what I want.

speg 10y ago

I checked out Brave yesterday for the first time and I think it does most of those things.

WayneBro 10y ago
Brave has a desktop mode that mostly works and a built-in adblocker. It does not have a `quick JS disable` button. It also doesn't have a speed dial that I can manually add items to, which is one very important item that I forgot to mention earlier. What I really want to do is make an open source browser that I can compile and put on my iOS devices myself too, without going to the app store. Then I could add all sorts of features and extensions without having to ask Apple.

softawre 10y ago

3 dollars? It really annoys you and you can't be bothered to spend 3 dollars?

WayneBro 10y ago
For a web browser? You really want to pay 3 dollars for a web browser? Also - Are you really surprised that people balk at paying for things that were once free? Really???? Furthermore, Dolphin has a "Private Mode" and it does not work at all. It's a lie. They are clearly trying to steer you towards their Zero browser. I don't give 3 dollars to companies who try to play me like that. Nope. No, no way. Uh-uh. Forget it. For now, I just use Brave for private browsing and Dolphin for public browsing. I actually want an open source one and I'm thinking about building it myself too. Looks like Brave is open source AND it's built with Swift which is exactly what I was going to do. I can just take that and rip out all the crap and add what I want.