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> Finally, you could fork Safari and remove quite a few features. I'm really curious how you would fork a proprietary project. > If someone did that, I think
by thayne 6y ago
> Finally, you could fork Safari and remove quite a few features.
I'm really curious how you would fork a proprietary project.
> If someone did that, I think we'd have a really ideal setup for cross platform apps.
Buy safari isn't cross-platform.
- nwienert 6y agoWebKit isn’t proprietary. Ultralight, the thing I linked to, is a fork of it. You’d just need to build a UI.
- thayne 6y agowebkit != safari. You might "just" need to build a UI, but if you want it to be cross-platform, that brings you back to the question of what GUI toolkit to use, or you have to handle the mess of different APIs for different platforms yourself.
- nwienert 6y agoYou’re really confused. We’re not talking about a browser, just an app platform. You can build WebKit on every major platform. If you’re talking about including a UI kit, there’s unlimited of those already written in HTML/CSS/JS. Once WebKit is running there’s no “different APIs”... that’s the whole point.
- thayne 6y agoAs I understand it webkit is just the rendering engine. You would still need to build the chrome around it, create and manage windows, etc.