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Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by ToFab123 »

mynameisash wrote: post #2

I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1]. [0] https://archive.org/details/tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software

I remember that they made an special version just for me. An update had removed a feature i used a lot.

A while later I helped them track down an error they couldn't find the cause of. They asked how they could thank me and i replied "bring back feature x"

For a little while they put up a link to a "Tony-edition" on the official download site until they got the feature back in the regular release. I still have it somewhere.

Hotdog was my first html editor. Brilliant is was. Happy memories

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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pwdisswordfish8 wrote: post #5

Ultimately, pursuing a full-featured graphical web browser might not be the right approach for a volunteer-/hobby-driven project to develop a web browser. But it would absolutely make sense that a newly implemented terminal-based browser in Go (or any other memory-safe language) could/should replace Lynx and w3m. It's actually pretty surprising that there hasn't been a niche surge in websites specifically meant to wo…

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Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by userbinator »

CrazyCatDog wrote: post #9

Screenshots are LACED chalk-full of explicit vocabulary... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfragoso/thdwb/master/im...

"It's better to be explicit than implicit", perhaps.

That site had its own discussion on HN many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6791297

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by interfixus »

Come on, everybody, this deserves a huge round of applause, for encouragement and for the effort. We need a lot more projects of this kind; we need some options for rebooting the browser scene from down below, however limited in scale and scope and functionality. I stick to my Firefox, crippled and bloated as it is these days, but I know full well that sooner or later it's going to fold, and I shall be stranded inside the Google nightmare. NetSurf shouldn't have to shoulder the complete oppositional burden all by itself.

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by surround »

How come entire operating systems are able to be developed on community-supported efforts (like Debian) but browsers can only be developed by monoliths like Google and Apple (and Mozilla, which has ~750 employees and makes most of its money from Google)?

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by GrifMD »

surround wrote: post #16

How come entire operating systems are able to be developed on community-supported efforts (like Debian) but browsers can only be developed by monoliths like Google and Apple (and Mozilla, which has ~750 employees and makes most of its money from Google)?

Isn't that Brave's niche?

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by surround »

GrifMD wrote: post #17
surround wrote: post #16

How come entire operating systems are able to be developed on community-supported efforts (like Debian) but browsers can only be developed by monoliths like Google and Apple (and Mozilla, which has ~750 employees and makes most of its money from Google)?

Isn't that Brave's niche?

Brave is chromium-based.

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by userbinator »

interfixus wrote: post #15

Come on, everybody, this deserves a huge round of applause, for encouragement and for the effort. We need a lot more projects of this kind; we need some options for rebooting the browser scene from down below, however limited in scale and scope and functionality. I stick to my Firefox, crippled and bloated as it is these days, but I know full well that sooner or later it's going to fold, and I shall be stranded insid…

There's Dillo too, but unfortunately last time I checked neither of them were even as close to usable on most sites as Opera 9.x (which was already many years old at the time, but had been quite popular for a while before that.)

Re: The Hotdog web browser and browser engine

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Post by wp381640 »

mynameisash wrote: post #2

I was really hoping that this was some sort of reboot of the HotDog[0] HTML editor by Sausage Software[1]. [0] https://archive.org/details/tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Software

I was anticipating clicking on it hoping for the source code - because at the time I was writing an HTML editor myself (as a young teen) and was blown away by some of what HotDog could do. Would love to peer into some of those older projects.
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