> My friend Penk says that netsurf works because of lack of features, > but a better starting point would be: > * uclibc/mipsel port of libwebkit from Debian
I don't know what "works because of lack of features" means. First - I agree about html5/css/js as the right way to do apps. As of right now we have quite a few browsers on the NanoNote, which is good. Most of them text based, but interesting stuff. So this is something that over time we have to get really good at! I need to find out more about webkit/gecko to really compare it with netsurf, and undoubtedly netsurf is a much leaner, smaller codebase with a lot less features. Why don't you just install netsurf to try yourself? :-) apt-get install netsurf netsurf seems a bottom-up project, and full javascript support may be years out. But... it's in active development, tries to use system libraries when possible, has super lean resource requirements. http://www.ohloh.net/p/netsurf/analyses/latest If I would look for a project to play with hardware accelerated browsing, i.e. moving parts of the browser into an IC design, maybe trying with netsurf is better than with a big codebase like webkit/gecko? The homepage says it can run on a 30 Mhz ARM chip with 16 MB memory :-) I'm not saying netsurf is perfect, but it's a very different engine and approach from webkit/gecko, so I think it should be on our radar. I wouldn't use it for regular browsing on my notebook because it sucks :-) Cheers, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
