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Luakit is a configurable, micro-browser framework based on WebKit and GTK+
- SingAlong 16y agoI've been looking for something like this all morning. The only thing I found close to making a custom browser UI is Mozilla's Chromeless SDK which is in alpha stages. http://github.com/mozilla/chromeless http://github.com/mozilla/chromeless Anybody knows anything else other than taking Gecko or webkit and doing it the hard way?
- pavlov 16y agoMaybe QtWebKit? http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/qtwebkit.html http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/qtwebkit.html It's still C++, but a lot more pleasant to deal with than Gecko, at least...
- bobbywilson0 16y agoWhat are you looking to do? It seems like there are enough of these "base" projects to work off of.
- SingAlong 16y agoLooking to buld a custom browser for my aunt who is not tech savvy. I just installed ubuntu nd have currently made FireFox to startup automatically in the bash script. I removed the gnome panels too.
- philjackson 16y agoI like to keep my eye on these browsers. Conkeror got very close to being the sort of browser I would like to have but was just a little bit too slow compared to Webkit based browsers. One thing that puzzles me about this though: why lua when you have access to JS engines? Would I have to use two extension languages to write a plugin which touches a webpage and the chrome?
- silentbicycle 16y agoAs extension languages go, Lua is like a better Javascript. The whole design is cleaner, and it has a very high performance JIT compiler (LuaJIT, http://luajit.org/ http://luajit.org/) for x86 platforms. Mainly, though, I think the devs just prefer it. (I do, too.) Also, using a separate scripting language makes the local / web barrier clearer, which probably helps with security.