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Re:Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer by sandGorgon on Monday August 12, 2024 @08:15AM (#41223547)
have you built Blitz for others to build browsers on ?

I build Wootzapp (https://github.com/wootzapp/wootz-browser) - we are kind of like Robinhood for data labeling. people can spend time labeling web data/images, etc in the browser and earn. Right now we are based on Chromium. Wondering if Blitz is looking to be the pluggable renderer for other browsers.

P.S. we are on the mobile (android today and ios tomorrow).

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Re:Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer by nicoburns on Monday August 12, 2024 @08:30AM (#41223638)
We've definitely built Blitz for other to build on. Whether it's feasible to build an entire browser on top of it... maybe. But for the being we are focusing primarily on use cases that don't need everything a full browser engine provides and can restrict themselves to a subset:

- Application UIs

- High-fidelity markdown previewing

- Perhaps PDF rendering, etc.

- Embedding web content within a wider system in an integrated way.

Etc.

It would be very cool if someone wanted to add actual JS scripting and DOM APis on top though.

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