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JankyBrowser: The only cross-platform browser that fits in a Gist

25 points by morganrallen 12y ago

spolu 12y ago
This the most extreme Gist I have ever seen. So fun to see a functional browser implemented with only a few lines of code. Disclaimer, I'm on of the dev being Thrust. That's exactly why we built Thrust, but @morganrallen pushed the envelope by distributing that through a Gist. So cool.
talles 12y ago
I'm about to try it. Anyway, why the author didn't published the package on npmjs.org?
- morganrallen 12y ago
  I chose not to because it's not really a serious project. It is more of a demonstration. But, I will be undertaking a more serious browser in the near future.
  - talles 12y ago
    I understand. But I would have published. There is a lot of crap on npmjs.org and your little toy, despite being just a toy, is organized and have a purpose; it makes sense to people other than you. Plus got on HN front page. I see npmjs.org as something more handy than formal. It's just me?
    - morganrallen 12y ago
      I suppose, but with there being a lot of crap, why publish something I'm unlikely to support? I'll give it a re-think.
  - mhernandez1988 12y ago
    True, i say publish it, this package is a hell of alot better than most of the crap on npm.
zongitsrinzler 12y ago
What is this exactly?
- morganrallen 12y ago
  It's a web browser.
- forgottenpass 12y ago
  It's a proof of concept that cross platform toolkits that include browser engines can be used to write cross platform browsers in an arbitrarily small amount of code. It sorta like the qt browser I wrote in ~100 lines to debug a QWebView issue, but much more pleased with itself.
peterkelly 12y ago
And here's a two-line web browser written in bash: #!/bin/bash firefox To clarify: If you're using a third-party rendering engine, your effort doesn't count as a "web browser". HTML parsing, CSS rendering, javascript support etc is the hard stuff - back/forward buttons and tabs aren't.
- morganrallen 12y ago
  But those are the parts that make it a web browser. Good luck actually using the web by rendering out pngs.

25 points by morganrallen 12y ago

spolu 12y ago

This the most extreme Gist I have ever seen. So fun to see a functional browser implemented with only a few lines of code. Disclaimer, I'm on of the dev being Thrust. That's exactly why we built Thrust, but @morganrallen pushed the envelope by distributing that through a Gist. So cool.

talles 12y ago

I'm about to try it. Anyway, why the author didn't published the package on npmjs.org?

morganrallen 12y ago
I chose not to because it's not really a serious project. It is more of a demonstration. But, I will be undertaking a more serious browser in the near future.
- talles 12y ago
  I understand. But I would have published. There is a lot of crap on npmjs.org and your little toy, despite being just a toy, is organized and have a purpose; it makes sense to people other than you. Plus got on HN front page. I see npmjs.org as something more handy than formal. It's just me?
  - morganrallen 12y ago
    I suppose, but with there being a lot of crap, why publish something I'm unlikely to support? I'll give it a re-think.
- mhernandez1988 12y ago
  True, i say publish it, this package is a hell of alot better than most of the crap on npm.

zongitsrinzler 12y ago

What is this exactly?

morganrallen 12y ago
It's a web browser.
forgottenpass 12y ago
It's a proof of concept that cross platform toolkits that include browser engines can be used to write cross platform browsers in an arbitrarily small amount of code. It sorta like the qt browser I wrote in ~100 lines to debug a QWebView issue, but much more pleased with itself.

peterkelly 12y ago

And here's a two-line web browser written in bash: #!/bin/bash firefox To clarify: If you're using a third-party rendering engine, your effort doesn't count as a "web browser". HTML parsing, CSS rendering, javascript support etc is the hard stuff - back/forward buttons and tabs aren't.

morganrallen 12y ago
But those are the parts that make it a web browser. Good luck actually using the web by rendering out pngs.