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Dooble: A minimal GUI web browser
- m000 5y agoSlim chance, but I'll ask anyway: Is it feasible to port Dooble to legacy platforms*? Or would that be technically impossible due to the stack used? *Thinking of PPC Macs (both OSX and OS9) as well as old *nix workstations.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoRIP Midori. (It’s still around but it’s moving to Electron.)
- tb131 5y agoIt seems to be using QtWebEngine, and as such, Blink (Chromium engine), but it also supports Gopher. https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble
- gwbas1c 5y agoI poked around the site and the github page. What's the point? Is this a hobby? Does this have some kind of feature (beyond being open source)?
- badsectoracula 5y agoWell, it does have the feature of apparently being trivial to build (i build it with just qmake && make) as it only needs Qt5 (of course then you also need to build Qt5 if you don't have that, which will have a ton of dependencies for itself).
- gwbas1c 5y agoSo? I mean, that's nice if the point is that the browser is a hobby browser or intended for general education about developing your own browser. But what's the compelling reason to use the browser? What's the advantage?
- badsectoracula 5y agoDunno, i deleted it after i built it and tried it out for a bit :-P. Firefox is fine. Perhaps it could be a neat starting point for a new browser or its little code could make it easy to customize.
- abdel_nasser 5y agothere should be an application layer protocol and corresponding browser that only transmits things that do not require a large corporation for the creation and maintenance of the software that is used to display those things. why would i describe it that way instead of some other way? because that is really the core of the issue. we can focus on making the web simpler for the sake of user experience but what really matters is whether a new web would have many smaller organizations maintaining browsers or just one huge company maintaining the browser that 99% of people use. in the former case, browsers are subject to a market and would therefore be faster, safer, better maintained and conform to the preferences of the user, ie open source and no spyware. in the latter case the browser is only good if you are lucky, the well-being of a single company has a disproportionate impact on the ability of people to browse the web and their browser will probably spy on you. javascript was created because we didnt know how the web would be used. now that the web is part of everyones lives and we know basically how we use it and what role it plays, what reason is there for this giant lumbering mess that is javascript that needs an army of people to interpret and is the source of countless security problems?
- gigel82 5y agoSo, a Chromium webview with some custom menus? Cool, cool, cool...
- Koshkin 5y agoEven cooler: > both implementations of AES and Threefish are written by the author(s)
- danudey 5y agoWhat's that old saying about rolling your own crypto? Something about it's definitely always a good idea to do, I think.
- tragictrash 5y agoI think that's it
- kingofpandora 5y agoDoesn't the saying refer to those who design their own cryptographic algorithms, not those who write their own implementation of accepted ones?
- Asooka 5y agoYou can still implement existing ones in ways that are vulnerable to e.g. timing attacks.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoNot to mention, you can also introduce bugs, which nobody will help you fix, because you’re not one of the major implementations.
- badsectoracula 5y agoI don't think it was about specific algorithms, but about the entire system. And AFAICT it is often said by people who have monetary incentives to convince others hire them, so i'd take it with a grain of salt or two.
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- FerretFred 5y agoIt seems okay. I built it on Arch this morning and the only thing I can't get it to do is save bookmarks (favorites) - any ideas? The gopher support is very welcome as I run a gopher server.
- sto_hristo 5y agoWith the menu and title bar it already looks bigger than chrome.
- mrweasel 5y agoI had that same though, seemed about the same amount of GUI as a stock Safari. The title might need a comma: "A minimal, GUI web browser". It's not a "minimal GUI".
- danrobi 5y agoThe GUI has been changed. See: https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble/issues/108 https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble/issues/108
- danrobi 5y agoFixed. Now the heights of the address frame and the status bar looks like this: https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble/issues/108#issuecomment-1003284405 https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble/issues/108#issuecommen...
- resoluteteeth 5y agoThe feature list at https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble https://github.com/textbrowser/dooble is... interesting for a minimal browser: > Original implementations of AES-256, Threefish-256. > Native graphing of data. > Floating digital clock. etc.
- saurik 5y agoI was almost like "my mother would love this!!" but then I realized that the floating clock app we had on her computer was specifically an analog clock, not a digital clock, as she found that easier.
- heresathinf99 5y ago
- happynacho 5y agoLooks 95% like Firefox
- anthropodie 5y agoSadly does not work on Wayland only environment.
- marcodiego 5y agoI miss Dillo.
- NoGravitas 5y agoDillo still exists, for what it's worth. Netsurf is another reasonable choice in that same space.
- guerrilla 5y agoI thought NetSurf was just for BeOS or something. Is it usable?
- easrng 5y agoNetSurf runs on basically everything, including Linux, RISC OS, KolibriOS (fits on a floppy!), and Windows.
- marcodiego 5y agoI use NetSurf on termux.
- Koshkin 5y ago> (fits on a floppy!) *Without NetSurf.
- danudey 5y agoIf you don't have two floppy drives, you're not cool enough to be on the internet.
- saunup 5y ago
- brnt 5y agoMinimal in the sense of gui chrome, it uses Qt's WebEngine (Chromium) lib.
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- danudey 5y agoAlso minimal in the sense that it doesn't ask you to log in, suggest you use their password manager, etc.
- butz 5y agoLooks like similar to Falkon, which hasn't seen an update in a while. Maybe KDE could support this project? It would be great to have minimal alternative browser in KDE Apps, like Epiphany (GNOME Web) on GNOME.
- Gualdrapo 5y agoI dream about a fully integrated, state-of-the-art web browser for KDE. Even I've been saying this for years, but always am replied with "we already have Firefox/Chrome" argument. But it seems they actually don't care about it. From 4.x on, every web browser they touch is just left to die for some reason (Konqueror, reKonq which was allegedly being supported by Blue Systems, now Qupzilla/Falkon)... Even the noise about Ken Vermette's "Fiber" at the early days of "KDE5" ended being only that, just noise.
- badsectoracula 5y agoI never used KDE for a very long time, but my first Linux distro (Caldera OpenLinux -IIRC- version 2.3, which i still consider the best put together distro in terms of how things worked with each other, especially considering it came out in late 1999) used KDE1 and i used KDE3 via Slax in some school computers years ago. One of my favorite aspects of KDE was Konqueror and how well integrated it felt with the rest of the desktop. I was disappointed when i learned that KDE decided to replace Konqueror with Dolphin.
- guessbest 5y agoThey just replaced konqueror with dolphin for file management. Konqueror is still for web browsing
- badsectoracula 5y agoYes, but what i liked back then was how integrated it felt. Opening any html file opened inside Konqueror, opening a folder with an index.html file showed the page (with a toolbar button to toggle it), back/forward buttons worked seamlessly, being able to drag-and-drop files seamlessly, etc. Not even Win98/ME (which introduced those features) felt that integrated.