Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Andrej Mitrovic" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On 4/5/11, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: >>> After all, I >>> *really* want to get around to making my own web browser (based off >>> either >>> Mozilla or Chromium) - I'm getting really fed up with the current state >>> of >>> available web browsers. Well, and the web as a whole (god I fucking hate >>> the >>> web), but one step at a time, I guess). >> >> I'll be the first to install it. >> >> Btw, there's a full web browser example in the QtD sources. But it has >> to be ported to D2. And then you have to deal with any eventual bugs >> along the way. :] > > Ha! I may not need to do much after all: I was just looking through > Wikipedia's giant list of browsers, found a few that looked potentially > promising, tried them all and...well, was mostly disappointed. But the > *last* one I had left to try I've been really impressed with so far: > > Arora (Qt/WebKit) > http://code.google.com/p/arora/ > > I've only tried it breifly, but the UI is *actually nice*! Only modern > browser out there with a UI that isn't absolutely horrid. I didn't even > see *one* instance of invisible-text on my light-on-dark system, which is > unbeleivavly rare among all software these days. > > And it has a lot of essential stuff built in, like ad blocking, > disableable JS, and a "ClickToFlash" which I haven't tried out yet. > There's still a few things it seems like it might be missing, like > equivalents to NoScript, BetterPrivacy and maybe DownloadHelper and > DownThemAll, but most of those are less important to me, and even as it is > right now it's a damn good start. Maybe I could add some of that remaining > stuff, or heck, maybe even port the whole thing to D ;)
Even it it would involve looking at C++ code? Did you know Arora *is* the Qt webbrowser example that got out of control and became a real browser? (it uses webkit) iirc QtD has a sizeable chunk of that example already ported to D.
