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I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). A browser should just ren

I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). A browser should just render pages (incl. JavaScript), and save cookies if you need it to. Beyond that, there's nothing else it needs to do. Round about Netscape 4 and IE6, browsers were functionally complete. Since then they've just been gilding the lily and creating an artificial 'features race' between the browser vendors. Sometimes, simpler IS better.

jakeogh 8y ago
With ya. Started modding suckless surf to my liking, got sidetracked but I plan to keep working on it: https://github.com/jakeogh/glide https://github.com/jakeogh/glide Still trying to figure out how to control animated gif's in webkit2.
- tomxor 8y ago
  I liked the idea of those minimal vim like browsers, but webkit2 lib they all used was always hopelessly out of date, insecure and slow. I've been keeping an eye on qutebrowser[1] though which offers either up to date [2]qtwebengine or webkit (qtwebengine is the browser engine of chromium minus all the google services and other garbage). [1] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser [2] https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
tomxor 8y ago
Why is this downmodded? it's a reasonable idea and qtwebengine is what you would use.
- niutech 8y ago
  Probably because there are already a lot of alternative web browsers, such as Brave. Why reinvent the wheel?
  - tomxor 8y ago
    > Why reinvent the wheel? Because if we never did we'd all be stuck with mozilla 1.
amelius 8y ago
> I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). I admire the determination, but why not just use Firefox instead?
abrowne 8y ago
Falkon is a Qt-based browser using QtWebEngine (Chromium). https://www.falkon.org/ https://www.falkon.org/

jakeogh 8y ago

With ya. Started modding suckless surf to my liking, got sidetracked but I plan to keep working on it: https://github.com/jakeogh/glide https://github.com/jakeogh/glide Still trying to figure out how to control animated gif's in webkit2.

tomxor 8y ago
I liked the idea of those minimal vim like browsers, but webkit2 lib they all used was always hopelessly out of date, insecure and slow. I've been keeping an eye on qutebrowser[1] though which offers either up to date [2]qtwebengine or webkit (qtwebengine is the browser engine of chromium minus all the google services and other garbage). [1] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser [2] https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine

tomxor 8y ago

Why is this downmodded? it's a reasonable idea and qtwebengine is what you would use.

niutech 8y ago
Probably because there are already a lot of alternative web browsers, such as Brave. Why reinvent the wheel?
- tomxor 8y ago
  > Why reinvent the wheel? Because if we never did we'd all be stuck with mozilla 1.

amelius 8y ago

> I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). I admire the determination, but why not just use Firefox instead?

abrowne 8y ago

Falkon is a Qt-based browser using QtWebEngine (Chromium). https://www.falkon.org/ https://www.falkon.org/