Hello, 2020-01-25 17:12 GMT, Hadrien Lacour <hadrien.lac...@posteo.net>: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 05:20:19AM -0500, Jesse Limerick wrote: >> In regard to "replace webkit with something sane" from the TODO.md >> fileincluded within surf. I'm not sure if you all are aware of this: >> https://github.com/SteveDeFacto/zsurf >> Little abandoned project in the vein of surf, but using webengine >> backend. >> >> I'm a huge fan of Suckless. Use dwm, dmenu, and st daily. Webkit is >> all that stops me from using surf. I work in web development and sadly >> most websites are optimised for use with webengine/blink. I know >> virtually nothing about C and such. Yet I am easily able to configure >> every suckless tool/utility. This is no doubt due to extensive >> documentation and logical configuration. It's also nice having >> my config baked into the source code, as a fork. Versus having to >> keep track of config files. Nor do I have to worry about pacman >> updating the software to be incompatible with my configurations. >> >> Anyway, thought I'd float this out to you guys. Might be a good >> starting point for surf with a webengine backend. >> >> -Jesse Limerick >> >> > > I think you're lost, mate. If you want some hints about why: webkit's > tar.xz is 20M while qtwebengine is 244M, one is made in C and useable in > C while the other is a C++ only abomination requiring Qt. > Don't misunderstand, though, Webkit is also horrible. > > The only suckless browser I can imagine is Netsurf, basically. > >
At least surf has the frontend to the webkit c++ nightmare in C, albeit in Gtk/C. Someone complained about netsurf too in this list, can't recall where, because the parser is a function babel tower IIRC, complicates the flow by using function calls instead of gotos. Didn't recall if that was true either. If someone wishes to make a surf on top of libns for X11, like the browser Michael Forney made for wayland on his distro [1]... [1] https://github.com/michaelforney/netsurf/tree/oasis/frontends/tiny BR
