Am 21.02.2014 um 08:41 schrieb koneu <kone...@googlemail.com>: > 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/
In general, I totally agree here. Unfortunately netsurf engine seems not be ready yet, for upcoming websites with html5/css3.
