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Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

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?

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-29 11:26

The following solution already exist:

- Hubbub: HTML5 compliant parsing library
- LibCSS: CSS parser and selection engine
- LibDOM: implementation of the W3C DOM
- Libnsbmp: decoding library for BMP and ICO image file formats
- Libnsgif: decoding library for the GIF image file format

That's all in C and supposedly lightweight. All from the NetSurf browser. http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/

Just start from there, cleaning those stuff up and adding everything else that's needed (especially javascript and an intuitive and minimal GUI).
No need for Assembly.

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