Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-16 Thread tautolog
es to access The Web with few resources. Ben   Original Message   From: Calvin Morrison Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 6:10 AM To: dev mail list Reply To: dev mail list Subject: Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine i've tested out dillo yesterday, and a bit today. it is very fast, but lacks

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-16 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Calvin Morrison said: > lacks javascript. See their "Plans" page.¹ > but fails badly on things with floating elements instead of tables. According to their Changelog,² floating elements are already supported in tip. There was a time when I used dillo much, and it was exceptionally good. These w

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
i've tested out dillo yesterday, and a bit today. it is very fast, but lacks javascript. Overall useful for simpler pages (lwn for example), but fails badly on things with floating elements instead of tables. On 16 February 2015 at 02:40, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Marc Weber said: >> also have

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-16 Thread hiro
sed and awk are the best web browsers. On 2/16/15, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Marc Weber said: >> also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Software) > > Servo appears to suck a lot. They appear to focus on improving > performance by spawning endless threads (complexity), and th

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marc Weber said: > also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Software) Servo appears to suck a lot. They appear to focus on improving performance by spawning endless threads (complexity), and they require specific custom version of compiler (quirkiness). -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Teodoro Santoni
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:10:15PM -0200, Marc Collin wrote: > Are there any plans for this? You may try to contribute to Blink and Servo. They may still suck, though. -- Teodoro Santoni

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Marc Collin
NetSurf's parser isn't suckless. Here are some issues with their tokeniser.c - Using switch statement and explicit case numbers to implement the tokeniser FSM instead of simple gotos and implicit position-based FSM. This means it has to go through that switch every time through the main loop, eve

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Ralph Eastwood
On 15 February 2015 at 19:02, Calvin Morrison wrote: > check out dillo > > On 15 February 2015 at 13:52, Ralph Eastwood wrote: >> On 15 February 2015 at 18:23, Marc Weber wrote: >>> http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ could be close. >>> also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Softw

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Calvin Morrison
check out dillo On 15 February 2015 at 13:52, Ralph Eastwood wrote: > On 15 February 2015 at 18:23, Marc Weber wrote: >> http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ could be close. >> also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Software) >> In any case it looks like to be a lot of effort. >> >>

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Ralph Eastwood
On 15 February 2015 at 18:23, Marc Weber wrote: > http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ could be close. > also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Software) > In any case it looks like to be a lot of effort. > > Marc Weber > I've glanced at netsurf in passing (source code/design) etc.

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Marc Weber
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ could be close. also have a look at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(Software) In any case it looks like to be a lot of effort. Marc Weber

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:13:12 -0800 Eric Pruitt wrote: Hey Eric, > Is such a thing even possible? I can't imagine there being a web > rendering engine that this community would consider suckless that would > also be useful for day-to-day web browsing. yes, you are going the right direction. We a

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Markus Teich
Eric Pruitt wrote: > Is such a thing even possible? I can't imagine there being a web rendering > engine that this community would consider suckless that would also be useful > for day-to-day web browsing. Heyho, imho you can either have a suckless „rendering“ engine aka html2text or just some sc

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Bobby Powers
Marc Collin wrote: > Are there any plans for this? Have you tried Google Chrome?

Re: [dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:10:15PM -0200, Marc Collin wrote: > Are there any plans for this? Is such a thing even possible? I can't imagine there being a web rendering engine that this community would consider suckless that would also be useful for day-to-day web browsing. Eric

[dev] Suckless web rendering engine

2015-02-15 Thread Marc Collin
Are there any plans for this?