On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:52:54 +0100 Markus Teich <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Markus, > yeah the web sucks and to conform to all those (non-)standards browser engines > are growing bigger and bigger. Webkit also takes quite a while to build on > laptops. The suckless browsers goal is to provide a suckless interface to a > sucking necessity. You don't have to build CEF yourself, you can just use the > binaries provided by google if you trust them. > > That being said, I experimented with CEF a year ago[0], but I did not have the > time to continue the project. There is also a huge PR from autumn updating to > the then latest CEF version, but I did not have the time to check that either. > If someone wants to pick up the code, you're very welcome, I think a suckless > interface to CEF would be a great thing that could distinguish the suckless > browser from all the other simple browsers which are mostly based on webkit1. > > The point I struggled most with CEF is the low level graphical stuff. I did > not > know, if I want to use GTK or just plain X and had some trouble achieving > keybindings passed correctly between the interface and the web page. It would really be a distinction. It would make sense to maybe not depend on X in this case and work with something different. Given the low-level graphical stuff, we "may" have to look into OpenGL. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <[email protected]>
