So you want to build a browser engine
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So you want to build a browser engine
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Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#2Great read :)
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#3I was going to suggest:
> initially try just being a faster, lighter or lower-power Electron or WebView.
But he mentioned it himself, though maybe someone might want to try this with no intention to become a full browser. Can you skip any of the tricky security requirements if it'll be bundled into an app? Or is that just asking for trouble?
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
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Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#5I was going to suggest: > initially try just being a faster, lighter or lower-power Electron or WebView. But he mentioned it himself, though maybe someone might want to try this with no intention to become a full browser. Can you skip any of the tricky security requirements if it'll be bundled into an app? Or is that just asking for trouble?
> Or is that just asking for trouble?
With the interactions an electron-like app might be doing with external services and the ton of JS third party library it could use, I think it would be indeed risky.
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#6This makes writing a compiler or writing an OS kernel look like child's play.
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#7I was going to suggest: > initially try just being a faster, lighter or lower-power Electron or WebView. But he mentioned it himself, though maybe someone might want to try this with no intention to become a full browser. Can you skip any of the tricky security requirements if it'll be bundled into an app? Or is that just asking for trouble?
So basically what Sciter does?
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#8This makes writing a compiler or writing an OS kernel look like child's play.
A browser engine is a compiler. Or, more properly, it's at least two compilers (HTML + CSS -- you can outsource JS to V8 or whatever).
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#9Who is this post intended for?
Nobody builds their own browser engines. And I mean nobody. I didn’t get the feeling that he wrote this for pet projects either.
Andreas over at Ladybird is probably the only one (and Servo?) who is really doing it the way that this post describes.
Still, the last couple of paragraphs made me think that this is more of a reflection of his own time over at Mozilla: could have / would have.
Re: So you want to build a browser engine
#10Who is this post intended for? Nobody builds their own browser engines. And I mean nobody. I didn’t get the feeling that he wrote this for pet projects either. Andreas over at Ladybird is probably the only one (and Servo?) who is really doing it the way that this post describes. Still, the last couple of paragraphs made me think that this is more of a reflection of his own time over at Mozilla: could have / would hav…
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