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Please use the money to rewrite it in Jakt ;) Jakt needs a posterchild project to receive the required attention. Besides, it would send not one but two strong messages to Mozilla
I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale. Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this? Either way, cool.
Maybe this is one of the reason?
It will be awesome if Ladybird can render Shopify perfectly, not to mention all the free exposure.
Hello friends! I’m really happy to have Shopify putting their faith in our little project like this :) If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3
Hello friends! I’m really happy to have Shopify putting their faith in our little project like this :) If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3
"I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377805 (540 points | 10 days ago | 166 comments)
Related (not sure if it is the same sponsor): "I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377805 (540 points | 10 days ago | 166 comments)
I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale. Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this? Either way, cool.
There are other browser engines targeted at this sort of embedded product, and ladybird obviously isn't specifically targeting it. But it may be a good play due to licensing and royalties if they expect to build millions of them.
Another could be to build a WYSIWYG rich text editor. Obviously a lot of Shopifys front end is about point and click building a store visually. "contenteditable" based editors are a nightmare of browser inconsistencies and bugs. If you could compile Ladybird to WASM and render to a html canvas, you could side step all that with your existing editor, only having to target one "browser".
I've not seen anyone do that yet, but I think it's a really compelling use case.
(Accessibility of canvas based UIs is still an unsolved problem though)
We seriously need a good open source browser alternative. Great to see competition here. I would love to see a browser built for developers with new paradigms for Dev Tools. Of course, the challenge will be parity in terms of rendering and performance with the current incumbents.
Would be great if it is being built with security in mind.
We seriously need a good open source browser alternative. Great to see competition here. I would love to see a browser built for developers with new paradigms for Dev Tools. Of course, the challenge will be parity in terms of rendering and performance with the current incumbents.
I don't know... I'm probably a Firefox fanboy, but all this fragmentation in the market of browsers that are not named Chrome isn't doing us much good in beating Chrome. I'm interested in Chrome being beaten, and it still seems Firefox has the best cards (though I don't know _how_). Once there's healthy competition in browser land, let's reconsider fragmenting it ;-)