Why browsers are bloated

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

>>631

But what is the mile-stone you want to reach before releasing it in the public domain?

Acid2 pass. I've mentioned this before, read the threads - especially the one on dis.4chan which was where this whole thing started. ("Low resource web browser")

Currently none of the lightweight browsers, i.e. Dillo, NetSurf, etc. have been known to pass Acid2. Thus, there is no point in releasing something that can't even match existing lightweight browsers in terms of rendering support. I'm not aiming at the links/w3m crowd with a text-based one. It has to be at least NetSurf/Dillo level, maybe even better than IE6, for it to be interesting.

Why not release what you have so far right now, so we can start playing with it early on?

There is nothing much to play with. At the moment, it is only an HTML parser and a very incomplete CSS parser. The only thing it has in terms of UI is a crude DOM viewer you can see in http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1406427616/123 .

http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1434199339/13

I'm still bloody busy so don't expect anything to happen for the next 2-3 weeks...