• @Zachariah
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    242 months ago

    It intentionally doesn’t support JavaScript to make things faster and much less resource intensive.

    • Claudia
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      132 months ago

      But…that’s just a setting on all the browsers

      • folkrav
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        The stuff like Flash, Java applets and Silverlight it eventually replaced were arguably even worse. There’s a legitimate need to run client-side code at times, IMHO the mistake was making it so permissive by default. Blaming the language for the bad browser security model is kind of throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

        • trevor
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          42 months ago

          WASM is a better way to run code client-side, and has the benefit of not being a terribly slow, untyped mess 😌

          • folkrav
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            22 months ago

            It desperately needs interface types if we ever hope to make it a serious contender for general purpose web development. The IO overhead of having to interface with JS to use any web API is itself pretty slow, and is limiting a lot of usecases.

          • folkrav
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            22 months ago

            Considering the community we are on, I assumed the criticism was more about the privacy problems surrounding the engine and browser security model than the quality of the language itself. If that was the intent, I mean… Yeah, its weak typing is a fucking mess.

            • @underisk@lemmy.ml
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              That’s fair. I just assume most people who reflexively insult JS are like that usually because they’ve written something in it, rather than having dealt with the many vulnerabilities and annoyances browsers have made possible with it

      • @kekmacska@lemmy.zip
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        22 months ago

        this is why i will write my blog from scratch with absolutely no JS or code execution of any kind

  • max
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    152 months ago

    im a bit curious about the cjoice of gtk2 over 3 or 4, but im too eepy sleepy to look deeper rn ill do that later meows >w<

      • @Warl0k3
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        12 months ago

        every day is furry day if you’re the right kind of linux dev

    • @tkw8@lemm.ee
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      22 months ago

      I think it’s just a place to start:

      The browser is currently in Alpha stage

      Planned support for systems in the near future: Linux GTK3/4…

      • max
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        12 months ago

        o my goodness i didnt even see that hehe >w< it does look cool meow :3

  • Leraje
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    72 months ago

    Great to see another brand new browser under active development!

  • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    Checkboxes are displayed as input boxes. Well, it’s an Alpha.

    Tested it with flatfox.ch “Your browser is too old” while it works even with Dillo and Links, seems a useragent-issue.