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Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

From Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
Date 2022-09-17 04:02 +0000
Organization Some absurd concept
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In comp.os.linux.misc, 25B.Z969 <25B.Z969@noda.net> wrote:
>    Look ... it's just not ready for prime time - that's
>    the fact. When it is it'll come in a nice .deb and .rpm
>    and will install easy and clean. For now it's 'beta-ware',
>    maybe 'gamma-ware'.

If it's only going to be SerenityOS, that may be a forever wait. 

https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird/issues/2#issuecomment-1177684116

    SerenityOS is a project for developers, by developers. End users are
    expected to be the developers themselves. I doubt the development
    flow of the ladybird browser will be any different, especially if
    (when?) it's folded back into the main serenity project monorepo.

    We've discussed this on discord many times for things like nightly
    ISOs of SerenityOS, and always come back to the fact that the build
    steps serve as an intentional but (very) low barrier of entry to
    ensure that the person running the code is at least capable of
    contributing code back.

    If someone wants to host their own builds of either Serenity or its
    derived non-serenity applications on their own, I don't think anyone
    will be upset, but please don't expect a community of developers who
    are doing things because they're fun to develop to support an
    extremely WIP project at the level of other existing browsers for
    non-developer users.

    A notice that "there's no support, build it and please contribute
    back" will likely not be read by people who download the project,
    try to visit their favorite website, find out it doesn't load, and
    then clutter the issue tracker with "I went to website X and it
    crashed" with no actionable backtrace or other bug triaging
    information.

>    Oh, and do we really NEED another web browser ??? Everybody
>    is after a seriously de-junked FireFox or Chromium - but I'm
>    not sure that's a viable option anymore. People expect a LOT
>    of browsers now and too much de-junking means a serious lack
>    of desired capabilities. Any new product - there's be a huge
>    lobby demanding they ADD all those junky features.

I believe having a variety of web browsers is good for the Internet.

What's the current state of affairs? A bunch of things derived from
Konquerer (Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Edge), plus a small smattering
of Firefox and things derived from Firefox (mostly people trying to
stick to older versions through forks), and maybe some Opera.

(And us rare few who still use _text_ mode browsers. I'm in that 0.1% of
the 0.1% who has and uses lynx from a cellphone.)

Elijah
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doesn't have a modern enough c++ pipeline to compile Ladybird now

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        Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-09-16 23:06 -0400
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                Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-09-19 10:10 -0400
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                Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project "26C.Z968" <26C.Z968@noada.net> - 2022-09-21 00:47 -0400
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                Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project "26C.Z968" <26C.Z968@noada.net> - 2022-09-21 00:56 -0400
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          Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-09-17 04:02 +0000
          Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2022-09-17 17:39 +1000

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