First of all, very neat!
Text selection doesn't work. I guess it's rendered to canvas... but would there be any way to make this work?
Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
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#12Nice. But I would have preferred if he had worked on Uzbl
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#14The inevitable question then: Can you run this browser engine within itself, and if so, how many layers deep can you get before the universe implodes?
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#15There’s something really beautiful about creating a browser that can run in a browser. We can finally steamroll a lot of those cross browser incompatibilities by replacing the host browser engine entirely. It’s like the nuclear option to fight against the new IE (Safari)
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#16Nice. But I would have preferred if he had worked on Uzbl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbl
I don't get it. Uzbl is a webkit-based browser. Can you expand on this?
It's not like one of those browser engines that are promising but not quite there yet, like NetSurf, Servo or Ladybird.
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#17First of all, very neat! Text selection doesn't work. I guess it's rendered to canvas... but would there be any way to make this work?
you would need to implement it manually, as with all the other features (shouldn't super complicated)
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#18There’s something really beautiful about creating a browser that can run in a browser. We can finally steamroll a lot of those cross browser incompatibilities by replacing the host browser engine entirely. It’s like the nuclear option to fight against the new IE (Safari)
I dunno I'd say the new IE is Chrome. They basically control the ecosystem and everyone targets them when developing.
"Best viewed with I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ ̶E̶x̶p̶l̶o̶r̶e̶r Chrome"
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#19There’s something really beautiful about creating a browser that can run in a browser. We can finally steamroll a lot of those cross browser incompatibilities by replacing the host browser engine entirely. It’s like the nuclear option to fight against the new IE (Safari)
I dunno I'd say the new IE is Chrome. They basically control the ecosystem and everyone targets them when developing. "Best viewed with I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ ̶E̶x̶p̶l̶o̶r̶e̶r Chrome"
I think GP meant "the minority browser we bend our logic for, in order to accommodate"
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno I'd say the new IE is Chrome. They basically control the ecosystem and everyone targets them when developing. "Best viewed with I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ ̶E̶x̶p̶l̶o̶r̶e̶r Chrome"
I think GP meant "the minority browser we bend our logic for, in order to accommodate"
Yes, that is what I meant. I have to work on a lot of e-commerce websites and the WebKit browser engine is the one that seems to always be late to the party or outright won’t support new features. But of course most shoppers on a website are on mobile Safari, especially the ones making purchases. And there’s nothing anyone can do about it because Apple won’t allow other types of browser engines on iOS.