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May I ask for a link to Scite project? Curious.

• arghwhat 6y ago
  https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sciter-engine https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...
  • hobofan 6y ago
    I'm not sure if GP meant sciter or scite.ai (both of which had a few posts about them recently), or even SciTE. However I don't see how either of those indicate some "real overhaul of the web", as sciter seems to be "just" a embeddable HTML/CSS engine which doesn't seem like a big change compared to e.g. webview[0]. [0]: https://github.com/webview/webview https://github.com/webview/webview
    • arghwhat 6y ago
      Sciter.JS is "just" an Electron alternative that is much, much lighter. Something like that could undo some of the damage done by using web tech for desktop, but it would indeed not overhaul the web in the slightest.
      • eitland 6y ago
        > but it would indeed not overhaul the web in the slightest. Kind of agree. What I am hoping for is either a new rendering engine that purposely incompatible with abusive websites and so much faster that people like us will use it anyway for everyplace it works and just keep a mainstream browser in backup for abusive web pages, or more realistically something like asm.js where Firefox made an alternative faster path for Javascript that adhered to certain rules.
  • mushufasa 6y ago
    it does not look like that kickstarter is going to succeed -- the deadline is today at ~10% completed with all or nothing