Quote: Originally Posted by veetid
You can write a fully functional browser "from scratch" in 1 week? Now any programmer can write a simple app to display html, but that's not a modern web browser, but more like a simple entry level class example... And any programmer can wrap another browser, again not writing one... A fully functional web browser needs to support all the latest w3 standards for html and CSS... It would need full Javascript compatiblity, XML, Flash, and support embedded objects... that's naming just a small handfull of the stuff you will have to implement... it would take multiple people a long time to write a browser from scratch that you could use to browse all over the web and have all the pages display properly... not sure you realize what is involved...
david
I was referring app like u put it "display html". Not full fledged industrial browser. The whole point would be investigate different kind of user agents (like they call browsers in HTML standard doc, if i remember correctly) in new kind of environments.... not to offer all those unnessary stuff.
But i can see that u guys r trying to say not invent the wheel again, but i have my own motives, the product wouldnt be important but the process. Investigating user agents in little different fresh environment, cause all the current browsers look pretty much like carved from same three... and if u bothered to read through your HTML standard. u notice how these folks r trying to make u think more abstract, braille browsers, n dimensional tables and so on. Why not also touchscreen friendly browser.
NOTE: I just want u to realise that im in no way critizicing your decision to wrap "IE" in centrafuse, on contrary i cant wait u to finish those new plugins and 1.5 so i can start coding for plugins also... have few nice ideas for new plugins and "touchscreen browser" is not top of the list.