Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now display Google Docs

Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by ramesh31 on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:12PM (#33512528)

*Kind of.

More power to them, but modern browsers are one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces of software in the world, probably right next to an OS. WebKit and Chromium respectively have had billions of dollars and decades of development poured into them. The current duopoly state of the market reflects that fact, unfortunately.

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by hbn on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:27PM (#33512747)

From the FAQ [1]

> Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff.

> Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser.

[1] https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by lzazz on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:52PM (#33513684)

Sure you can start a new browser engine, but this one is nowhere near usable, and it will probably never be.

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by stephen_g on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:27AM (#33516155)

Well I'm glad they're trying and not listening to the defeatists!

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by Decabytes on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:25PM (#33512716)

I believe Andreas actually worked on WebKit for awhile so he is well aware of how challenging implementing a browser is

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by Y_Y on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:29PM (#33512775)

Of course WebKit and Blink (Chromium) are both just shitty descendants of the beautiful (and foss) KHTML from Conqueror.

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by djbusby on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:48PM (#33513021)

*Konqueror

https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/konqueror/

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by Y_Y on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:27AM (#33517098)

Thanks. You can blame autocorrect for that one. No doubt more of Google's anticompetitive behaviour using Android keyboards to surpress rival browsers.

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Re:Ladybird, the from-scratch SerenityOS browser, can now di... by anderspitman on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:46PM (#33512998)

Firefox on Linux doesn't even run a decent number of sites well for me, I assume because they're primarily tested on Chrome. And Chromium often chokes on Google's own voice.google.com web app. Ladybird doesn't have to be perfect to be useful or interesting.

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