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Re:The Helios microkernel by Santosh83 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:26AM (#31763682)
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.
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Re:The Helios microkernel by nix23 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:09AM (#31766940)
Yeah and is more work then the OS itself...

But hey having a browser and ext2 should be good enough ;)

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Re:The Helios microkernel by lemoncurd on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:10AM (#31765638)
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.
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Re:The Helios microkernel by hawski on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:33AM (#31766521)
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.
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