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Check out Canonic https://www.canonic.com/ https://www.canonic.com/ for an experimental take on an alternative web

projektfu 5y ago
Was that supposed to do something other than show half a page and not respond to clicks and scrolls? iOS 15 on iPhone SE 2.
- nawgz 5y ago
  Indeed… double digit seconds to load and then it isn’t responsive and doesn’t respond to touch events. A bit under baked, to say the least
- csande17 5y ago
  On my MacBook, canonic.com displays a few sentences of text and a few links. To do this, it takes 15 seconds to load a 25 megabyte WASM payload. The resulting page draws all of its content onto a <canvas>, scrolls backwards because it somehow ignores my system's "natural scroll direction" setting, and doesn't let me right-click to open links in a new tab. In other words, it's a demo of what Web performance and usability will be like ten years from now. Twitter and Reddit are already working on redesigning their websites to incorporate this new technology. (In all seriousness, it's a demo of a subset of Qt compiled to run in a web browser, and it seems to work better on desktop.)
  - projektfu 5y ago
    OK, I reloaded it in Brave on Ubuntu and it had the features you mentioned. I suppose it's interesting but it's unclear what path there is to making it the standard that replaces the standard.
Brian_K_White 5y ago
Great. Someone reinvented flash, except the plugin is dowloaded and compiled in-page every time instead of installed traditionally. Even better! All those shitty restaurant web sites that were forced to become almost useful when flash went away, can rejoice and go back to being as awful as they were.
- jcelerier 5y ago
  No, the end goal is to have an entirely separate browser which browses a web built with QML instead of html / js / css ; since Qt compiles to WASM it's a simple way to try it but the actual thing exists as a standalone desktop app: https://github.com/canonic/canonic https://github.com/canonic/canonic

Was that supposed to do something other than show half a page and not respond to clicks and scrolls? iOS 15 on iPhone SE 2.

nawgz 5y ago
Indeed… double digit seconds to load and then it isn’t responsive and doesn’t respond to touch events. A bit under baked, to say the least
csande17 5y ago
On my MacBook, canonic.com displays a few sentences of text and a few links. To do this, it takes 15 seconds to load a 25 megabyte WASM payload. The resulting page draws all of its content onto a <canvas>, scrolls backwards because it somehow ignores my system's "natural scroll direction" setting, and doesn't let me right-click to open links in a new tab. In other words, it's a demo of what Web performance and usability will be like ten years from now. Twitter and Reddit are already working on redesigning their websites to incorporate this new technology. (In all seriousness, it's a demo of a subset of Qt compiled to run in a web browser, and it seems to work better on desktop.)
- projektfu 5y ago
  OK, I reloaded it in Brave on Ubuntu and it had the features you mentioned. I suppose it's interesting but it's unclear what path there is to making it the standard that replaces the standard.

Brian_K_White 5y ago

Great. Someone reinvented flash, except the plugin is dowloaded and compiled in-page every time instead of installed traditionally. Even better! All those shitty restaurant web sites that were forced to become almost useful when flash went away, can rejoice and go back to being as awful as they were.

jcelerier 5y ago
No, the end goal is to have an entirely separate browser which browses a web built with QML instead of html / js / css ; since Qt compiles to WASM it's a simple way to try it but the actual thing exists as a standalone desktop app: https://github.com/canonic/canonic https://github.com/canonic/canonic