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Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

#11

The more browser engines, the better. It doesn't use neither Chromium nor Gecko.

Small nit: this reads in English as a double negative. It's easier to picture if you think of neither as 'not either.'

Perhaps 'it uses neither' or 'doesn't use either.'

Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

#13

Hello friends! I am very excited about this indeed :) If you’d like to know more about Ladybird, I did a presentation about it at the Web Engines Hackfest in Spain just two weeks ago: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs

I just want a browser that tastes like a real browser!

Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

#16
Congrats! Considering HTML but mostly CSS complexity is expanding all the time as we speak (discussed on the HN front page right now [1]), are there points to be addressed at the likes of W3C, Inc and github.com/whatwg to make your work easier or even possible? Such as versioned CSS specs/CSS profiles (subsets), test suites aligned with CSS or HTML versions, test suites usable without JS (eg web-platform-test for CSS requires in-browser scripting last I checked), formal specifications/better algorithmical layout descriptions, etc? Are you targetting specific HTML versions such as WHATWG's preview drafts/snapshots?

Good luck with your project! Maybe naming your sponsors can help to get even more contributions and contributors?

I can offer some help/advice with HTML parsing, but I guess you have figured that one out and are following the procedural parsing description, whereas my expertise would be the SGMLisms on which it is based (and its minute re-construction from the HTML5 spec).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36375582

Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

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Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

If only there was some kind of foundation which could choose where to spend the many millions of funding it receives each year...

Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

#20
Ladybird looks amazing. Just as I was losing faith that building a browser from scratch today was an almost impossible task that only a big company could pull off, they proved otherwise.

I compiled it and added packages to install on openSUSE for this in the readme... which was easy because you don't need much to build this browser! And it builds in a few minutes.

I wish Discord was not mandatory to interact with the community (because I strongly believe in [1]). I will not use Discord so interacting with the community might be complicated if I ever want to work on it.

Anyway, may Ladybird thrive.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...

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