NetSurf[1][2] still exists, and while it's not a small program, it's definitely not as large and unwieldy as Chrome or Firefox. And it's good-enough to browse simple sites like Wikipedia or HN with, heh.
Re:The Helios microkernel
by marcodiego on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:27AM
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I used Dillo for a time. NetSurf is now my browser of choice for constrained systems. I sometimes use it on Termux.
The SerenityOS team are building a browser from scratch and it is even passing some of the ACID tests. The pretty significantly along. So it is possible with enough dedication, but whether you can be competitive with Chrome is a different matter.
Yeah and is more work then the OS itself...
But hey having a browser and ext2 should be good enough ;)
Their browser needs to run on a single platform, their own platform, and only one rendering backend, etc. Thus it is a lot less complex than Chrome or Firefox.
I think that supporting multiple platforms is one of the smallest challenges for a browser. CSS and performant JavaScript that manipulates DOM is far more complex a problem.
> expect him to announce one in the next few years.
9 months ago:
Days.
https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/30/bleh.html
Must feel nice to have an article written about you!
Given your karma, I assume you already know this, but from the guidelines:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
There should be a guideline for following one username around a thread and quoting guidelines at them across multiple comments because you don’t like them. Your solution is quite noticeably worse than the problem and fouled up the thread a bit more than the user you’re chastising, which is quite ironic.
Kagi is building Orion on top of WebKit and based on my testing it is already very solid even though it's extremely early in the development
EDIT: Well, ignore, I didn’t realize we are discussing from scratch browsers :)
[0] https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop...
[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....