Nordstjernen Web Browser

lewisjoe•about 4 hours ago

Honest question: How can an entire html/CSS layout engine fit in a single layout.c that I can read over an afternoon? This looks too simple to be usable for serious work.

fcpguru•about 3 hours ago

its not it uses:

https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor

lewisjoe•about 3 hours ago

Got it. Thanks!

maxloh•about 3 hours ago

> Source-available under the Functional Source License v1.1 (FSL-1.1-MIT). Free for any non-competing use; converts to the MIT license on the tenth anniversary of each release. See LICENSE.

You should not use the FSL name if you change the date of the license switch, which is originally set to the second anniversary. If you want to change that duration, you should use a different name to avoid confusion.

Sentry intended for the FSL to be specific rather than general. The company's Deputy General Counsel stated:

> TLDR, FSL is narrow in scope for a reason.

> You're free to create your own license based on the FSL with AGPL as the change license if you rename it so that it isn't confusingly similar.

https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/53#issuecom...

roschdal•about 3 hours ago

Yes, I might change this back to 2 years, I am still thinking about the right balance between a free web browser and a commercial software product which will generate revenue.

tuwtuwtuwtuw•about 4 hours ago

What could go wrong.

roschdal•about 4 hours ago

I am making this web browser. Ask me anything. Bug report welcome.

thisislife2•25 minutes ago

Good effort! Did you consider using Netsurf codebase ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) or contributing to it? (The website is outdated but the development is ongoing and active).

lewisjoe•about 3 hours ago

Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?

fcpguru•about 3 hours ago

why not join up with https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird ?

roschdal•about 3 hours ago

Nordstjernen is a ~30 kLOC solo-built C browser aimed at being a small, hardened web reader for the text-heavy web, while Ladybird is a ~500 kLOC funded C++ project aiming to be a fully standards-compliant third browser engine alongside Blink, WebKit, and Gecko.

fcpguru•about 2 hours ago

ok good answer. next q: why not team up with https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser and zig and make this both the small headless browser + a human one

tuwtuwtuwtuw•about 4 hours ago

It looks like AI slop. Is it AI slop?

flustercan•about 3 hours ago

Are you asking the author to validate your own opinion? Why don't you explain why you think its slop and provide some evidence to back up your assertions and we can have a real discussion.

tuwtuwtuwtuw•about 2 hours ago

No, I am asking the author whether it's AI slop.

As for evidence, sir, this is a wendys.

drabbiticus•33 minutes ago

slop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be answered as LLMs continue to shift the programming landscape.

Having said that, you could have just clicked the link and found https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits/mai... with a bunch of commits by claude. It took longer to write this than it took to figure out whether AI was used.

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