Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-22 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 22:29:03 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 11:55:50 UTC, aberba wrote: [...] Yeah, it is a solid choice with a long history. Did you know the Unix Printing System used to (I don't think it still does but im not sure) work this way?

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-21 Thread Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 11:55:50 UTC, aberba wrote: I have this idea of building a web view based desktop app with a webserver and db backend for CRUD functionality. This looks like a great option. Yeah, it is a solid choice with a long history. Did you know the Unix Printing System

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-21 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 21:15:19 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: I wrote a little blog about my browsers in D, with some discussion about how you might be able to embed them in your application too: http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_12_18.html With Firefox getting worse

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-21 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 14:24:45 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 09:29:36 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: When I was the CTO of my previous company, we embedded Gecko into a custom C++ GUI framework, to allow ALS people browse the web using gazes as an input

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-20 Thread Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 09:29:36 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: When I was the CTO of my previous company, we embedded Gecko into a custom C++ GUI framework, to allow ALS people browse the web using gazes as an input method: it was a real pain ... Wow, yeah, I know it must be

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-20 Thread Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 06:29:30 UTC, Hors wrote: Rust is better choice than D if you have to run code from untrusted resources (html, javascript, webassembly...) it's safer, plus faster. That's not how it actually works in any of the browsers though. The code that implements those

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-20 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 00:07:44 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:40:48 UTC, Antonio wrote: [...] Oh, I'm old enough to remember the Chrome auto-update that broke standard HTML links! It was such a pain supporting it in the first few years, while IE and

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-20 Thread Sergey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 08:17:20 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 06:29:30 UTC, Hors wrote: Rust is better choice than D if you have to run code from untrusted resources (html, javascript, webassembly...) it's safer, plus faster. [citation needed] I would

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-20 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 06:29:30 UTC, Hors wrote: Rust is better choice than D if you have to run code from untrusted resources (html, javascript, webassembly...) it's safer, plus faster. [citation needed]

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Hors via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 00:00:24 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 22:42:16 UTC, Doigt wrote: Firefox is getting better, not worse. That's strictly your opinion. Firefox has a number of major problems: * They invested in Rust instead of D. [...] Rust is

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Hors via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 21:15:19 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: I wrote a little blog about my browsers in D, with some discussion about how you might be able to embed them in your application too: http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_12_18.html With Firefox getting worse

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:40:48 UTC, Antonio wrote: It was not the first neither the last problem that a new version of chrome caused to our company Oh, I'm old enough to remember the Chrome auto-update that broke standard HTML links! It was such a pain supporting it in the first

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Antonio via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:40:48 UTC, Antonio wrote: Really? It is my primary development browser. ... I apologize for the tone of my last post. I consider that what it express does not fit the rules of this forum. If possible, I would like it to be removed by the moderator. Thanks

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Antonio via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 21:15:19 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: With Firefox getting worse by the year, you might want to consider also making your own partially-usable chromium/edge skin (also known as "pukes")! Really? It is my primary development browser. In fact, chromium has left me

Re: Browsers in D

2023-12-19 Thread Doigt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 21:15:19 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: With Firefox getting worse by the year, you might want to consider also making your own partially-usable chromium/edge skin (also known as "pukes")! Firefox is getting better, not worse. That's strictly your opinion.