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Does anyone have an estimate how much work it is to make a Webkit-based browser like Kagi's Orion, but open-source? Not the rendering engine, but the browser a
by solardev 2y ago
Does anyone have an estimate how much work it is to make a Webkit-based browser like Kagi's Orion, but open-source?
Not the rendering engine, but the browser around it? Is it something a small team could conceivably do if you placed reasonable constraints on it: one platform at first, no cloud sync, minimal feature set, etc.? Or are we talking years and years of work and dozens of devs?
- CharlesW 2y ago> Is it something a small team could conceivably do if you placed reasonable constraints on it: one platform at first, no cloud sync, minimal feature set, etc.? I believe so, yes. There's a `webkitdev` Docker image which includes the required software to build WebKit on Windows¹, and you can use Playwright to run WebKit (including Web Inspector) on Windows very easily². If you wanted to start with Linux, WebKitGTK would presumably be extremely helpful.³ (Tauru uses WebKit on Linux through through `webkit2gtk`, for example.) ¹ https://github.com/WebKitForWindows/docker-webkit-dev https://github.com/WebKitForWindows/docker-webkit-dev ² https://dev.to/dustinbrett/running-the-latest-safari-webkit-on-windows-33pb https://dev.to/dustinbrett/running-the-latest-safari-webkit-... ³ https://webkitgtk.org/ https://webkitgtk.org/