2 Feb
2022
2 Feb
'22
6:17 p.m.
On Wednesday 02 February 2022 09:53:10 am Mavridis Philippe wrote:
I think Webkit is very underrated, it's used by
Midori, Badwolf, Qutebrowser,
etc. so it seems to be popular for privacy and freedom oriented browsers.
Using things like Midori in the past, it can display modern web pages just
fine.
I'd argue that since it supports a very limited
portion of JavaScript
and apparently none of the modern Web APIs like WebRTC, WebAssembly
etc., the attack surface is actually smaller. The only disadvantages
from a security standpoint would be effective lack of eyes and work on
the source (the obvious disadvantage being, of course, a browser stuck
in time).
Agreed. I just disable Javascript and Java altogether. Perhaps until
something
can be done this should be the default.
Webkit
Looks like the least evil choice to go for TDE. Upstream versions seem
to offer decent rendering and boast good privacy, and it can be
integrated deeply with TQt/TDE. > its fork Blink
I don't trust Blink at
all just due to the "creep" from it dominating the web
browser market with Google in charge. They could create any standard they
want at any time and every browser for the sake of compatibility would have
to comply.
> and QT5's repackage of Blink's core as
WebEngine
Just QT5 Blink.
With current manpower I don't see Konqueror getting a browser revival any time
soon, but it's still nice to think about. I only mention it so much because
on the first installation of TDE your web browser *is* Konqueror in its
current state, with a launcher in the panel and on the desktop. Not a great
start.
Off-topic but blu, I don't know if I told you I liked Tristian (the polar
bear). I never got to make my entry because then and now I've been too busy
with the stress of modern academia to learn much outside of school. If we got
another mascot, I would be fine with Tristian. :-)
--
~ Hunter