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Yes. I worked on this project for three years. This is exactly what it is. It’s also much more stable than chrome.
by zackees 4y ago
Yes. I worked on this project for three years. This is exactly what it is. It’s also much more stable than chrome.
- blooalien 4y ago> "It’s also much more stable than chrome." I find that exceedingly easy to believe… Chrom(e|ium) as it currently stands (for a rather long while now) is a massive resource hog. Stripping it down and re-writing huge portions of it (pretty much) from scratch can only be an improvement.
- sandGorgon 4y agostrange question...but if you were to create a new mobile browser for android (with some custom features), would you recommend Chromium or Cobalt ?
- kaveet 4y agoCobalt isn't a great fit for general-purpose web browsing because it only supports a subset of HTML--lots of websites would appear broken. It's really meant for webapps you've designed with Cobalt in mind. Check out the supported features: https://cobalt.dev/development/reference/supported-features.html https://cobalt.dev/development/reference/supported-features....
- scrollaway 4y agoThat… sounds absolutely amazing. Very specific purpose yes but wow, the amount of times I've needed a stripped down HTML engine that doesn't suck. I suspect this could make an excellent renderer for an app doing markdown previews, CHM files, ebooks and such for example.
- emmanueloga_ 4y agono <canvas> though ;-(
- Animats 4y agoCan you get Cobalt to return an error status "HTML outside of supported subset - need full browser", for applications where you need a fast-launching embedded browser? Is there some tool for evaluating pages for "will they run in Cobalt"? I can see uses for this if you can do that. If you can't, it's limited to sites designed for it.
- zackees 4y agoChromium. Cobalt doesn't work for the majority of websites. Websites kind of have to be built specifically for Cobalt to work well.