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For the first time in years, someone is building a web browser from scratch:
For more than two decades, building a new web browser from scratch has been practically unheard of. But a small company called Ekioh has its reasons.
The Cambridge, U.K.-based company is developing a browser called Flow, and unlike the vast majority of browsers that have arrived in recent years, it's not based on Google's Chromium or Apple's WebKit open-source code. Instead, Flow is starting with a blank slate and building its own rendering engine. Its goal is to make web-based apps run smoothly even on cheap microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.
There's a reason companies don't do this anymore: Experts say building new browsers isn't worth the trouble when anyone can just modify the work that Apple and Google are doing. But if Flow succeeds, it could rethink the way we browse the web and open the door to cheaper gadgets. That at least seems like a goal worth pursuing.
"It's a huge task, but if you want something which is very small and very fast, you typically can't start with one of the other engines," says Stephen Reeder, Ekioh's commercial director.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday March 19 2021, @03:11AM
Last I checked, .NET had no official Mac GUI layer. The existing Windows Forms implementation was 32-bit and thus died with Catalina. Should people use Xamarin Forms until MAUI [microsoft.com] comes out?
The developer of a Qt app must still recompile it, which means the developer must own a specimen of all platforms on which to test a program before distributing its executable form to the public. Maintaining a Windows PC, an Intel Mac, an M1 Mac, an X11/Linux PC, an iPhone, and an Android phone is a big task for smaller ISVs.
By "legally" I meant "other than hackintosh".
Other than perhaps money and time (which is money). One person trying to do better all by himself results in TempleOS.