Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 20 February 2014 18:27, koneu <kone...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Nick wrote: > >> Yes, but the web-viewer could suck less, internally. GTK & glib > >> being rather obvious examples. With that in mind I thought I'd take > >> another look at webkitnix today, and found that they're not planning > >> to maintain it anymore. Which sucks. > > > > Sad... I had hoped for uzbl to switch to it so I'd have a reason to > > leave behind dwb. > > Then again, Webkit itself sucks so badly that using GTK & glib won't > > really hurt surf. One could say that surf is a suckless interface to > > sucky GTK and sucky glib, which interface with C++ WebKit, which in turn > > interfaces with the World Wide Web of Suck. > > I'd say surf should be blink[0] based in the midterm future. I spend > some effort on checking how it can be statically linked. > > Granted, it might suck a whole lot more than webkitgtk, but I see the > days come, when webkitgtk(+) will fall behind. > > The web game isn't suckless. It is suckmore.
I'd love to see surf become a suckless, keyboard-controlled, compile-time-configured frontend to Hubbub[0]. It is written in C, MIT licensed, statically linkable, small (compared to the WebKit family), and, presumably, faster than any other layout engine. It sucks less. (0) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/hubbub/
