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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by pgwalsh »

satvikpendem wrote: post #5

If you want to use no-Javascript browser as well, this browser prototype [0] is getting pretty good too. It's developed by Dioxus, a GUI framework in Rust, as part of its native renderer which seeks to create their own alternative to Skia, similar to Flutter, but it'll work on the web as well with HTML and CSS standards unlike Flutter web which is just a canvas. It's also a from scratch implementation, sort of, using…

This is great. I'm building a site that has JavaScript but is fully functional without it, this would be fun to see how it renders it. I use htmx, AlpineJS and Vanilla JS just for additional help for users with forms and search but works fine without it. Thanks for sharing this.

I will recompile ladybird too. Last time it had made great progress but was no where near read for regular use.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by hitekker »

jordand wrote: post #45
einpoklum wrote: post #10

> Human Rights Foundation ... “AI for Individual Rights” program That sounds quite dodgy. Ladybird doesn't have AI, why would such a program support its development? But even before that: "Human Rights Foundation" sounds like "The Human League" which George makes up in Seinfeld as a fake charity. And promoting AI as a "human right" is quite suspicious. If I had to, I might be that this is something backed by one of t…

Ladybird has a close relationship with FUTO which is a pretty oddly behaved private for-profit company ran by a bored multi-millionaire. https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

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Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by rhdunn »

isametry wrote: post #85
teruakohatu wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If LLMs allow them to speedrun to an alternative mainstream browser, then full speed ahead. A third runner in this space would make the browser market a lot healthier than the current chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly.

>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively. Firefox is at around 3% market share. There’s no “-poly” to Gecko at all.

Blink is derived from WebKit, so is in the same family like the other Blink/WebKit derived browsers. Fireox/Gecko is a different browser implementation.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

#107

Post by polycaster »

I don't want to dampen the positive vibes around this project in any way, in fact I'm very glad such projects exists. But it just struck me that my immediate associations with the "non-profit" label - which in this project's context is clearly being positioned against Mozilla's for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation - don't quite match reality. Even though it is indeed a non-profit, the website features a not exactly short listing of sponsors, including platinum-tier sponsor Cloudflare.

Platinum, per Ladybird's own sponsorship page, means $100,000+ per year. Money that, per the site, comes from "just people and companies who believe in an open web." Cloudflare, then.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

#108

Post by Narishma »

jiehong wrote: post #44

Congratulations! However, the screenshots for "List markers in RTL text" are the same it seems. The list markers are on the left in both cases.

It's subtle but they aren't the same. The list makers are now to the right of the text entries as they should. But it's hard to see because it's somewhat hidden by the glaring issues the rest of the page still has.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by greggh »

polycaster wrote: post #107

I don't want to dampen the positive vibes around this project in any way, in fact I'm very glad such projects exists. But it just struck me that my immediate associations with the "non-profit" label - which in this project's context is clearly being positioned against Mozilla's for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation - don't quite match reality. Even though it is indeed a non-profit, the website features a not…

Uhh, yes? Non-profits take donations to keep doing their work.

Re: This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Post by sethops1 »

notenlish wrote: post #66
jordand wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ladybird has a close relationship with FUTO which is a pretty oddly behaved private for-profit company ran by a bored multi-millionaire. https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

Didn't realize FUTO was connected to Eron Wolf, which connects to Curtis Yarvin, which connects to Palantir. Great...

What, do you sincerely believe Palantir is pulling the strings behind Ladybird? What is the accusation here? Everybody can be "connected" in some way or another, but it's meaningless.
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