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Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by hRrrm1 »

spolu wrote: post #17
snissn wrote: post #7

What security promises can you make? How do I know that you're not hijacking my cookies and passwords? I atleast trust apple and Google with my data before even opening their browsers

Completely understandable. There is no server, we don't store any data outside the app and the source code is available here https://github.com/spolu/dazzle But of course this is Show HN material so still totally experimental.

From the code it seems like pages can navigate to `file://` URLs?

I don't have a bin handy or I would check myself.

Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by cupcakestand »

spolu wrote: post #19
cupcakestand wrote: post #18

Tried Dazzle few times this afternoon and this browser is just brilliant. Why: Currently, user interaction with tabs on mobile browsers is totally broken and super cumbersome. Dazzle is merging browsing history with tabs which is smart and leads to a super smooth user experience. Actually, there are no tabs anymore, just the browser history which pops ups every time you touch the address bar at the bottom. Simple but…

Thanks! That's exactly what excites us as well and motivated us to work on this. What message would you use on the landing page?

> What message would you use on the landing page?

Good question and not sure myself.

You could make it straight and simple and put the focus on the missing tabs. Then, your header would be something like 'The No-tabs Browser'. This might be again too simple and you could get a bit more abstract and stress your minimalstic approach ('The Less-is-More Browser'). However, I'd tend to be to the point and build a story around the main feauture.

Or you find a new hook in the communication, e.g. privacy. Then, your UI is kind of nice side-benefit and the DNA.

How many are you and where are you from?

Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by w33ble »

Nice job! Of all the third party browsers I've tried on iOS, this is the only one that feels as nice as mobile Safari, and the only one I'd consider using full time.

Do you have any plans to implement bookmarks, or any way to "pin" items in the history? I use the mobile Safari favorites all the time for quick access to 4 or 5 sites. Seems like the one thing missing from Dazzle.

Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by llorca »

w33ble wrote: post #25

Nice job! Of all the third party browsers I've tried on iOS, this is the only one that feels as nice as mobile Safari, and the only one I'd consider using full time. Do you have any plans to implement bookmarks, or any way to "pin" items in the history? I use the mobile Safari favorites all the time for quick access to 4 or 5 sites. Seems like the one thing missing from Dazzle.

Thank you! Spot on, we'd like to add a pinning functionality in the future, to keep track of to-dos for instance. We haven't gotten to it just yet.

Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by dorian-graph »

spolu wrote: post #11
michaelmior wrote: post #4

What are the "first principles" you based the design on?

Mostly a shared tab/history system that feel much more adapted to mobile. To a certain degree, access to everything without changing hand or an additional hand. Under the hood there's only one WKWebview and that makes it feel surprinsingly I have to admit slightly faster.

Where did these first principles come from?

Re: Show HN: Dazzle – Mobile web browser designed from first principles

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Post by fiatjaf »

It isn't tab management that is keeping the web from shining on mobile devices, it is basically the load time of webpages + Javascript, I think. Also the inability for the user to decide to store a website, so it loads faster the next time, including, for example, those GIF sites that take so much to load every time someone sends you a GIF that they may prefer to download the GIF and send it directly on the IM app.
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