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> You can already do that today (yes, on iOS) by using your own developer-signing certificate (because if it's from github, you can build it from source; or re-
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
> You can already do that today (yes, on iOS) by using your own developer-signing certificate (because if it's from github, you can build it from source; or re-link/assembly prebuilt linkable binaries if you really feel like it).
Not if you want a browser with a JIT Javascript compiler, which for better or worse is a basic requirement for a broadly usable browser.
- kaba0 3y agoYou can actually enable JIT for a specific app for yourself. Nintendo emulators actually can make use of that, for several years now. It’s just a niche, so no one bothered porting a whole ass browser with its JIT compiler and GC and whatnot to ios for that 3 users. Now it can change.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoNo, these emulators achieve JIT via a method intended for remotely debugging apps. AltStore has a way of automating this, but it requires an active server connection when the app is launched. In AltStore's case, this means you need to be on the same wifi network as the computer running AltServer. I don't know whether it would be theoretically possible to do this over WAN, but it definitely isn't practical at a large scale.
- mcsniff 3y agoMight be possible to do using a VPN as long as you can get broadcast/multicast packets forwarded. Tailscale unfortunately doesn't support it...yet? https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013 https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013
- scheeseman486 3y agoYou can't really be serious in suggesting that all of this is reasonable to run a full featured third party browser.