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Leaving Netsurf in favor of Neosurf(Netsurf fork with various improvements) #68
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Also, another alternative that is also light, but more compatible with newer web standards is Ladybird, from SerenityOS: Its got a HaikuOS port so I don't think it'll be so difficult, check the build docs here: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructionsLadybird.md Its got a QT frontend |
this, or rather visurf was mentioned in #45. I dont see this getting any different respons from the dev. |
Apparently there are more options to statically build Qt6 than in Qt5. But in any case I was able to create a version of Qt5 which does a full static build from scratch, including plugins (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/LeanQt). |
Interesting. Thatll certenly raise the bar from netsurf, and maybe one can have a more modern browser. Albeit its written in C++, so wont fit Oasis' goals, but ill check it.
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LeanQt only depends on C++98, for which a (lean) compiler is available on nearly every platform, and it can even do without exceptions if need be. If one can live with C++98, LLVM/Clang 2.7 is good enough. That version was still somewhat lean and much faster than today's LLVM versions with more than 70% of today's performance (see e.g. https://gist.github.com/zeux/3ce4fcc3a43072b4315abde95319ecb6). If no exceptions are required (or only a primitive form like longjmp), a compiler could quite easily be constructed based on cproc and cfront (see https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/index.html#cfront). So you wouldn't have to bend Oasis' goals too much to achieve this. |
LeanQt only depends on C++98
Which is still C++.
And for oasis, that is a strict no no from Oasis' standpoint.
In any case, this looks interesting, for me personally atleast. As a statically linked somewhat modern browser capable of using JS has been something ive been wanting for some time now.
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Sure, but I gave you a perspective how to translate C++ to C using yet another preprocessor. But of course it's up to the Oasis development team to decide what they want to do. |
Sure. Maybe @michaelforney wish to chime in here with his wisdome. But Im guessing no, because simplicity is also a goal here.
Im not really part of the *developement team*, so to speak. I mostly just make PRs for updates and such where Im able.
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Code can be found here: https://github.com/CobaltBSD/neosurf
Features include:
Visurf support, with various upstream improvements and fixes
Various upstream improvements and UI enhancements to Gtk frontend
Removed compatibility for super old and/or obscure libraries/software/operating systems
Dedicated LibreSSL support
Various privacy improvements
Rewritten build system
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