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0 pointscatern10y ago0 comments

I don't really know why, but I have some small optimism that Servo might enable such a browser. The only other candidate browser engine is Webkit, which is already too huge to be part of a small Unixy browser. Maybe Servo, as a project that people are actively hacking on, might work.

Alternatively, maybe https://github.com/breach/breach_core though their website is down, so maybe the project is dead...

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pcwalton10y ago· 2 in thread

I think that any browser that can render the modern Web will necessarily be too big to really be called "Unixy". But Servo is an exceptionally modular browser engine, as is obvious upon building it. We're up to 150 crate dependencies and counting, most of which are independent of the browser engine.

jasonhansel10y ago

One option I have found is surf (http://surf.suckless.org/), but it seems too limited for me to use it on a regular basis. Really, what I'd like is a browser in which almost all components (tabs, bookmarks, etc.) are just extensions around a simple (Servo-based?) core.

Servo is awesome, by the way -- I look forward to seeing what comes next!

jb61310y ago

perhaps the "modern Web" is the problem.

Really, it should be simple - http requests + html + css + js. Decades of "features" have resulted that we can't build browsers from components.

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