Web Browser Engineering

Re:Web Browser Engineering by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:49AM (#41848575)

Something that uses less RAM would be nice. Other than that and the spyware from Capital-G Google Chrome and Capital-M Mozilla Firefox, I don't have a problem with it being sparse. It's millions of hours of de-duplicated work.

I'd like an alternative to HTML though. If I was to make a browser maybe I'd focus on replacing HTML because I can't stand it, and replacing js just because the runtime is heavy.

Like, a browser that only runs wasm and has nearly no JS runtime would make me giggle

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Re:Web Browser Engineering by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @12:01PM (#41849961)

> Like, a browser that only runs wasm

That's not a browser.

More or less by definition, a browser is an application that can use HTTP (and potentially other protocols) to make requests to other systems and retrieve stuff described using HTML (and possibly other formats).

Sure, a tool that just loads wasm and executes it would be fun (and probably exists, at least for the local case). But it's not a web browser.

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Re:Web Browser Engineering by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @12:25PM (#41850229)

As opposed to current browsers that run wasm and JS I mean

Yes there would be a DOM in addition

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Re:Web Browser Engineering by niutech on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:24PM (#41854462)

For less RAM, try: Dillo, Netsurf, Otter Browser, K-Meleon, Pale Moon, Basilisk, Ultralight.

As an alternative for HTML, why not QML with Canonic browser?

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