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It looks like the author was trying to crowd-fund open-sourcing this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sciter-engine https://www

It looks like the author was trying to crowd-fund open-sourcing this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sciter-engine https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci... I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium or reviving the idea of using the built-in OS WebView control (which is mostly Chromium nowadays anyway), at least that would be a standard web environment.

eitland 6y ago
I've already pledged. Helping in avoiding making Chromium the default is icing on top of the cake. Edit: I also want a massively cut down, blazingly fast rendering engine for a subset of html that is big enough for Wikipedia. Specifically I want it to be paired with a strictly limited version of something like Javascript, only limited and with batteries included. Dynamically updating content on user clicks should be OK, running general calculations should be hard.
- ComodoHacker 6y ago
  That's what Sciter (with TIScript) is now.
gitgud 6y ago
Under the Kickstarter information: > "...Some of these directions better suit Open Source development model for many reasons." So they want $100,000 to give people the source code. Then they're saying it will suit Open Source Development (also requesting free labour from the community).... this is a red flag
- dmitriid 6y ago
  They want $100,000 to fund work on open sourcing code that people will then use for free. As far as red flags go, educate yourself: open source work is unsustainable without external sources of income: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
  - ptrott2017 6y ago
    Sciter has been around a while and has a good reputation amongst those who have used the SDK. The OP also has a good reputation amongst devs and hackers who are familiar with his work. Its just not well known outside those circles. Rather than a red flag I don't see this as any different to when Blender needed to raise 100K Euro to originally go open source.
- imtringued 6y ago
  A bigger red flag would be an open source project with no maintainer.
imtringued 6y ago
Nobody is going to slim down chromium.
est 6y ago
> I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49 https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49
- gigel82 6y ago
  Whatever little I could gather from Google translate sounds very interesting. I wish someone did a deep dive (in English) on what this is and how to use it (with focus on disk space and runtime performance characteristics).

eitland 6y ago

I've already pledged. Helping in avoiding making Chromium the default is icing on top of the cake. Edit: I also want a massively cut down, blazingly fast rendering engine for a subset of html that is big enough for Wikipedia. Specifically I want it to be paired with a strictly limited version of something like Javascript, only limited and with batteries included. Dynamically updating content on user clicks should be OK, running general calculations should be hard.

ComodoHacker 6y ago
That's what Sciter (with TIScript) is now.

gitgud 6y ago

Under the Kickstarter information: > "...Some of these directions better suit Open Source development model for many reasons." So they want $100,000 to give people the source code. Then they're saying it will suit Open Source Development (also requesting free labour from the community).... this is a red flag

dmitriid 6y ago
They want $100,000 to fund work on open sourcing code that people will then use for free. As far as red flags go, educate yourself: open source work is unsustainable without external sources of income: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
- ptrott2017 6y ago
  Sciter has been around a while and has a good reputation amongst those who have used the SDK. The OP also has a good reputation amongst devs and hackers who are familiar with his work. Its just not well known outside those circles. Rather than a red flag I don't see this as any different to when Blender needed to raise 100K Euro to originally go open source.
imtringued 6y ago
A bigger red flag would be an open source project with no maintainer.

imtringued 6y ago

Nobody is going to slim down chromium.

est 6y ago

> I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49 https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49

gigel82 6y ago
Whatever little I could gather from Google translate sounds very interesting. I wish someone did a deep dive (in English) on what this is and how to use it (with focus on disk space and runtime performance characteristics).