On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Jeremy Henty <[email protected]> wrote: > I have contributed many patches to the Dillo web browser project over > the years. I run Dillo locally with several extra patches, including > a proof of concept patch that adds a Dillo plugin that wraps a Lua > interpreter.
Nice. I haven't tried anything with Dillo, but I have looked at the code of D+ ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/dplus-browser/ ) which is a fork of Dillo that was redesigned for portability. The author even got it to work on a DOS system. I've also been looking into webkit based browsers with lightweight front ends (like FLTK). Netrider and Fifth are interesting examples. Did some patching/porting of Netrider at one point, but haven't had much time to look into it lately. I've been wanting to use a modified browser to provide functionality similar to Microsoft's HTAs (hypertext applications) on Linux/BSD systems or to run web apps natively on mobile devices. Various projects like Apache Cordova and mosync use browser code (such as webkit) to display and run web apps locally on Android or IOS devices without needing to connect to the Internet and a web site. > Ages ago I hacked a couple of GIMP plugins ("Coloured Solid Noise" and > "Plasma") to add an option to produce tileable results. > > I also once added a few menu items to the TeXmacs mathematical text > editor (it supports GNU Guile as an extension language). However, > these have been lost. So it goes. > Sounds like some interesting projects. Always nice to hear from other people who are using Open Source to modify/customize programs to their needs. Was surprised when I talked to other Open Source users to find out how few people actually did this sort of thing. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
