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I author a CSS 2.1 rasterizer, and a partial implementation of it is used in a game engine my company's open source organization publishes. There's such a smal
by andrewmcwatters 5y ago
I author a CSS 2.1 rasterizer, and a partial implementation of it is used in a game engine my company's open source organization publishes.
There's such a small number of people who have written their own pieces of visual web client technology, and an uncountable number who consume it.
I've entertained the idea of writing a partially compliant web browser and releasing that for fun. It's still totally possible to write your own web browser today.
You will of course need to put in effort than an exceptionally small number of people have, and even after you do that, you'll only have something partially compliant. But it will be valid!
Hell, you could build an HTML5 valid web browser that didn't even use CSS. Invent your own thing. Make JSON style sheets or something.
Anyway. We don't have enough people toying around with web tech. For years, I've only ever seen people toy around with the easy. Things like making little web clients to help you with API requests instead of turning to curl, or rehashing a CSS framework for the nth time.
And frankly it's sad to see because its so uninspired and boring.
Where are the people creating basic web browsers that use C# as a programming language instead of JavaScript? Or people inventing a new hypertext markup language as an alternative to HTML that still uses HTTP as a transport protocol?
- pjmlp 5y agoWPF and WinUI.
- zamadatix 5y agoSerenityOS probably has the most serious attempt I've seen at "Let's make our own web browser for the sake of it" (along with the rest of the OS). I think they are still working towards Acid 2 compliance but they also have a spattering of newer features supported as they hack at getting newer sites to work. Not a very whacky take though just a home grown one. http://serenityos.org/ http://serenityos.org/