We are making a web browser! PREVIOUSLY: NeTRunner is a browser framework written in C++ using GLFW, mbedtls, and freetype2 w/harfbuzz. We're trying to write it in such a way that it can render to OpenGL, framework or as text on a terminal (or sixel). We're also focusing on low dependency requirements on external libraries to make embedding in other projects easier.
It currently is themeable and renders text and links from HTML. CSS and JS parsing implementation are under way. It can make http and https requests, some of the form elements work and can GET/POST some data.
It has a pluggable parser architecture, so you can easily make your own markup language parser for the engine. CNM people have already shown interest, and it's also a complete application framework, so you could build a text-editor with it if you wanted to.
To contribute follow the WORK PLAN, join the IRC to ask developers for a repo, and get to programming! IRC on Rizon: #Sup Forumsnetrunner
>HOW ANYONE CAN HELP 1) Make themes 2) Make documentation 3) Read the source code, ask questions in the IRC/Discord 4) Testing / QA bug 5) We need a project manager and/or build manager 6) Any type of content creation to help communicate existence and help recruit a community around the project. Post videos / screenshots on social media. If you make a cool video, we can plug it on our youtube channel that's doing well.
the other ones were obviously moon man but what's this one?
James Nelson
502 bad gateway error for me trying to download the windows version.
Benjamin White
it's a work in progress, I think it might symbolise racial harmony or some gay shit like that.
Samuel Diaz
it's garbage, just stop.
Matthew Russell
This.
Carter Walker
Does this project borrow a lot of code from other modern browsers? I don't see how you can offer competitive feature sets or performance without doing so.
Julian Moore
>Does this project borrow a lot of code from other modern browsers? It borrows no code from other shit browsers. All code is written from scratch in C++ for maximum performance and standards compliance.
It's going to be the best browser ever.
Noah Gray
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Christopher Adams
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Eli Murphy
pls no dead
Caleb Mitchell
How portable actually would this be? Is there actually a chance of making it work on operating systems like SysVs, or is it going to be riddled with Linux/GCC-isms out the ass like tons of other pieces of free software?
Bentley Garcia
For what I see this was a hell lotta portable from the start, they got mac linux and windows and I see some dos. Minimal requirements are probably why.
Michael Ward
Hurry up with this project already. Us non-codefags need this.
Hudson Gomez
When will this fucking meme die. You're not making a browser, you're making a failed experiment that might vaguely resemble a browser from 1994
Charles Bell
netrunner will be the best browser in history
Henry Collins
This
Owen Wright
That shit's standard faire, though. I'm talking #ifdef ULTRIX-tier shit. I want to get the fuck off of Mozilla 1.7's wild ride.
If they can compile the fucking thing on DOS though that sounds encouraging. There's too much shit out there that claims to be "portable" while not even following language standards and thus causing stricter compilers to shit themselves in the most annoying ways possible.
Joseph Gomez
When will this meme die it's not even funny at this point
Hudson Martin
>check source >JSParser.cpp >it's actually real >they've done it again
1st of April was 7 months ago so please stop this joke already
Nicholas Anderson
If you have opengl available then you can get this working.
Aiden Murphy
Fuck yeah I do, guess I'm trying it out tomorrow.
Kevin Adams
my sides
Connor Johnson
neogaf, since it's sufficiently rapey to be edgelord-approved now
Leo Myers
Holy shit. Uh, RegEx? Ever hear of it? Anyone?
Lucas Taylor
Subtle.
Lincoln Peterson
>hurr we don't use other people's code, only our own because of MUH PERFORMANCE see:
Ethan Cooper
>Still no framebuffer support Call me when this browser is finally usable
Gabriel Lopez
html regex meme xD
Nolan Gomez
I had to write code like recently that because SQL don't have loops.
Justin Hernandez
Fuck off redditors. You make Sup Forums users work for free and when you go public you're like "le who is Sup Forums? we're all redditors" and " they are anonymous. They don't need to be credited". Don't think you're to smart
Owen Ortiz
Found the actual redditor
David Richardson
But this is c++ and it has loops. And other things that can help you avoid code repetition.
Parker White
This, Sup Forums anons were named even on HN.
Luis Hall
NeToRare
Joseph Parker
Styish just updated to webextensions compatibility and is now broken, like most of my addons in firefox are. I hope webextensions are worth it or firefox is doomed.
Jose Long
So are you guys writing your own HTML engine or are you using something like Blink or Gecko? What about the JS engine?
Ayden Hernandez
oh fuck i forgot to start Java -_-
Aiden Flores
retard
Ryder Ward
I have Mesa 6.4 buried somewhere, but can't find an X11 library that implements enough features on DOS. GLFW is kinda inflexible in this regard as it demands one of: Cocoa, X11, Windows, Mir, or Wayland. Tried using nano-X11/Microwindows, not enough features.
Brandon Sullivan
Proprietary HTML & JS engines, which is why this will never be complete or even useable.
Juan Peterson
>Proprietary HTML & JS engines But which ones?
Carson Allen
I am so going to make exploits for this and use it on Sup Forums to crash Sup Forumstard browsers and gain access to their machines
Lincoln Allen
If you expect to write your own browser engine then this project is already dead.
Parker Smith
bump
Kevin James
not official Sup Forums browser not even a browser
Brody Lewis
What about SVGALib? It was used in browsers for this exact purpose.
I still prefer the old logo. Gas the niggers and the Jews. Gas the dykes and commies too
Mason Parker
Poor moonman, he didn't deserve this fate.
Dominic Sanders
this, we're dying here
Kevin Sanchez
HAHAHAHAHA NICE BROWSER YOU GOT THERE
Levi Thompson
Hoping by the end of the year
Should be fixed now.
Not performance reasons. We'll have an internal version of everything to maintain low dependency requirements to make this easier embeddable in other projects.
Not yet, I have two weeks work of commits to push, just been busy. Mostly JS work.
Well it's win/mac/linux atm and we're using 2-3 compilers to make the code as durable as possible.
Oh tks, found a bug
Everything from scratch with an options to support others later.
Will check that out
Mason Fisher
here in the west we got technology to draw arbitrary pixels on the screen
Alexander Stewart
Checked
Nicholas Cox
what were you expecting? the guy is a literal macfag, ofc his stuff is going to be shitty at best
Carter Lopez
oops, reply got flipped that might just solve the DOS+GLFW thing
Grayson Bennett
all right winfags, brought the build up-to-date with the rest of the project, is anyone else experiencing bad flickering? Might just be on my end. :-/
Julian Roberts
Whats up guys my programming skills arent' great enough to help but I wanted to know how you guys made the netrunner.cc website. It looks fucking sexy. I want to make one in similar style to put my project links on there.
Is there a link to the repo of the actual net runner website alone so I can clone and mess around with it?
