Oh, and similar comment applies to Dillo. I know little of NetSurf.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, 19:50 Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:

> As discussed previously :) I have come to agree that having SWK is a good
> lightweight idea, but I'm just not sure that it would be as "simple" if it
> started to support all a common user expects in a browser. That is, if we
> added manhours which we don't quite have, and SWK could become usable on,
> say, top 50 sites of the modern web, it would no longer be lightweight
>
> Would you consider it lightweight once it could run Facebook desktop
> experience? Or Google Docs? No matter what one may think about particular
> products, sites like this are what's important for a regular user to
> consider something a browser.
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, 19:07 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ivan Vučica wrote:
>> > WebKit is a good candidate, just, let's not present it as a
>> > lightweight project because it's anything but.
>>
>> that is why I liked SWK approach so much: with the same interfaces, a
>> lightweight engine. Almost hot-pluggable :)
>>
>> Alternatives would be to "port" a lightweight engine and there NetSurf
>> or Dillo oro similar, this was discussed an infinite number of times on
>> this mailing list, but no real effort in the engine was actually done.
>> We had several WebKit attepts  (but as said, not lightweight) including
>> Berkelium and CEF stuff (quick wrap). But the only light approach
>> attempted is/was SWK. The rest has always been a lot of talk, while we
>> need cooding power.
>>
>> Riccardo
>>
>
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