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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by rhaps0dy on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:26AM (#10072011)
Correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't this webkit?
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by kenOfYugen on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:42AM (#10072064)
Isn't WebKit the rendering engine itself?

The "ideal" core I was talking about should be able to use WebKit as a rendering engine.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by panic on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:07AM (#10072132)
If no 'browsing' features are included, isn't what you're left with the rendering engine itself?

It seems like WebKit's WKWebView (or WebKitWebView on gtk, or ewk_view on efl) is pretty much what you're asking for.

Edit: WKView should be WKWebView, sorry

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by kenOfYugen on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:30AM (#10072193)
By no "browsing features" I mean something closer to a headless browser. Just a library. Is that what WKView is about?
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by panic on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:37AM (#10072216)
Yeah, it provides all the features of a browser without the UI for them. You embed the WKWebView (not WKView, I mistyped) in your browser app and call methods on it to load URLs, go back and forward, and so on.
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