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Re:Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and emb... by kaveet on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:45PM (#33713169)
Cobalt isn't a great fit for general-purpose web browsing because it only supports a subset of HTML--lots of websites would appear broken. It's really meant for webapps you've designed with Cobalt in mind.

Check out the supported features:

https://cobalt.dev/development/reference/supported-features....

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Re:Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and emb... by scrollaway on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:57PM (#33713244)
That… sounds absolutely amazing. Very specific purpose yes but wow, the amount of times I've needed a stripped down HTML engine that doesn't suck.

I suspect this could make an excellent renderer for an app doing markdown previews, CHM files, ebooks and such for example.

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Re:Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and emb... by emmanueloga_ on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:14PM (#33714280)
no <canvas> though ;-(
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Re:Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and emb... by Animats on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:10AM (#33715475)
Can you get Cobalt to return an error status "HTML outside of supported subset - need full browser", for applications where you need a fast-launching embedded browser?

Is there some tool for evaluating pages for "will they run in Cobalt"?

I can see uses for this if you can do that. If you can't, it's limited to sites designed for it.

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