Re: Boiling the Oceans [was Re: GNUstep Live on OSnews]

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> That is, if we added manhours which we don't quite have, and SWK could 
> become usable on, say, top 50 sites of the modern web, it would no 
> longer be lightweight
>
> Would you consider it lightweight once it could run Facebook desktop 
> experience? Or Google Docs? No matter what one may think about 
> particular products, sites like this are what's important for a 
> regular user to consider something a browser.

It should not support them! not in full experience at least... to use 
those monstruosities you can barely use Firefox.
That is why I usually have two browsers installed on all of my systems.

As I wrote, being an GNUstep version of NetSurf or Dillo would be a 
medium term goal for SWK+Vespucci and I think it would be useful and 
cater to people who like  simple and fast thigns.
As said, something I can run on my Raspberry easily. It should be 
capable of displaying GS documentation for example. Wikipedia "well 
enough" without full stylesheets. It should be able to make searches in 
things like duckduckgo

No JavaScript or, medium-term, simple enough JavaScript to perform some 
basic operation that are useful

Otherwise it would be indeed a full reimplementation. After all, there 
is not such difference in "weight" between the major browsers. I think 
Gecko is one of the best, but not the fastest. I don't like the chrome 
engine at all, even if it is embedded inside Opera, however it excels in 
certain things.. Even IE 11 has its superiority to the other two. But 
once you punch these through big interactive sites (like cloud sites) 
they all will require tons of memory and at least 2 Cores.

I explicitely chimed in when I saw NetSurf cited.

Riccardo