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The latter is a hell of of a task, given the complexity of the current web standards. I'm not sure if it's possible to do this decently without some kind of ser
by mepian 7y ago
The latter is a hell of of a task, given the complexity of the current web standards. I'm not sure if it's possible to do this decently without some kind of serious financial backing.
- userbinator 7y agoTargeting a subset, i.e. the "document-centric web" (no JS, only basic HTML and CSS), is not that difficult in comparison and has been done by a few others; the most prominent of these "second tier" browsers being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSurf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSurf . Of course, writing a text-based browser in Lisp or any other language is far simpler but also less practical.
- jmercouris 7y agoThis is certainly possible with our current architecture. Maybe we will do it at some point down the road.
- RodgerTheGreat 7y agoI've been looking for a lightweight browser I can use on older machines- Dillo and NetSurf both seem worth checking out!
- c256 7y ago> Of course, writing a text-based browser in Lisp or any other language is far simpler but also less practical. Emacs has a few; the included one is called “ewww”, and is pretty nice if you’re into emacs already.
- BubRoss 7y agoThen there shouldn't be claims of a web browser written in lisp when that isn't the case.