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nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Re: nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Post by pecg »

This is a definitely an interesting approach. What is the web engine behind it? I thought about the idea on building a simplified interface for blink and V8, but they are extremely and differently glued to other pieces of software in each Chromium release, that it is indeed hard to keep track on them.

Re: nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Post by digi_owl »

pecg wrote: post #2

This is a definitely an interesting approach. What is the web engine behind it? I thought about the idea on building a simplified interface for blink and V8, but they are extremely and differently glued to other pieces of software in each Chromium release, that it is indeed hard to keep track on them.

Looks like whatever webkit variant they can find.

https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT/tree/master/next

"Use CCL Cocoa Library to use native webkit backend"

Re: nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Post by pecg »

digi_owl wrote: post #3
pecg wrote: post #2

This is a definitely an interesting approach. What is the web engine behind it? I thought about the idea on building a simplified interface for blink and V8, but they are extremely and differently glued to other pieces of software in each Chromium release, that it is indeed hard to keep track on them.

Looks like whatever webkit variant they can find. https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT/tree/master/next "Use CCL Cocoa Library to use native webkit backend"

My bad, I missed that comment, was even reading the source code trying to find something about it. Thank you.

Re: nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Post by zeveb »

pecg wrote: post #2

This is a definitely an interesting approach. What is the web engine behind it? I thought about the idea on building a simplified interface for blink and V8, but they are extremely and differently glued to other pieces of software in each Chromium release, that it is indeed hard to keep track on them.

I believe that it's using Qt's WebKit API. I don't believe that it has ad blocking yet, but that's a Simple Matter of Programming™.

Re: nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha

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Post by zeveb »

4lch3m1st wrote: post #5

I really wanted to test that, but the lack of Linux support is a bummer. Maybe in a few weeks...

It runs on Linux just fine, just no download.

I've gotten it running myself. Tried to build it for Windows, but it just wasn't happening — far too alien an environment to try to develop software on.

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