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 JasonFruit » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

I don't want to be that guy, but let me be that guy: you need to search on the name of your product, and if it refers to too many similar things, choose a new name. The DuckDuckGo results for 'next browser' include browsers for Android and Windows (maybe --- only read the headline), as well as articles about what should be your next browser. Google is similar.

Choose a new name. You're making life difficult for your potential users.

That being said, I'd love to try it, if I had Apple products.

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

#12

Post by digi_owl » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

pecg wrote: post #4

digi_owl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find that if i want to find out what something is made of, start with the dependencies in the build instructions.

It may not always help, but it seems to work often enough.

This time however it was in the version history, go fig.

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

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Post by The-Compiler » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

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.

You might want to look into QtWebEngine or Chromium Embedded Framework, which give you a stable API over Chromium's content API.

Then again, this sounds a lot like qutebrowser ;-)

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