On Wed 2 Aug 2017 at 14:14, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1 August 2017 at 15:50, Derek Fawcus
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I recently stumbled across NetSurf [0], which currently has OSX support
> > (but is about to have it dropped due to it always breaking), and pondered
> > how difficult it'd be to get workig on gnustep.
> >
> > DF
> >
> > [0] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
>
> Originally a browser for Acorn RISC OS.
>
> (Another niche OS and desktop I follow. This is the Linux version of
> the desktop:
>
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ )
>
> It's a neat little browser but it doesn't support Javascript, so it's
> very limited on the modern web.
>
> However isn't WebKit FOSS and specifically designed for macOS?
>
> https://webkit.org/


That is this year's gsoc project.

WebKit's Mac port uses loads of APIs that are available only under macOS,
too. It should not come as a surprise that it heavily relies on Core
Animation, for example, if you compare CA with some of the more recent
additions to CSS (animations, transforms, etc).

Consider how that relates to the amount of work to make it even compile...
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