Has anybody coded a web browser with FB yet? I been thinking about it off and on for a while (not in fb most likely). It'd take major major research on my part, but I kinda think it'd be worthwhile.
This is a little off topic, but. If nobody here has coded one, does anybody know of one at all besides the 3 "Big Brothers", that being, IE, FF, Opera?
Quote:does anybody know of one at all besides the 3 "Big Brothers", that being, IE, FF, Opera?
Off the top of my head: Mosiac, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, Links and Lynx. If you are after source code to learn from then Links or Lynx might be a good start. Both are small text mode browsers.
Sebastian Mate coded one in Qbasic once. I don't recall ever using it, but I know that he did. That might be a good place to start from.
As for modern, open source web browsers I would study Firefox and Konquerer for Linux.
Here are a few more:
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/webbrowser.xml
It would be interesting to see a web browser in Freebasic. Just remember that they are complicated. I'm not sure how large the other main web browsers are but Safari is a 1.0MB executable.
It would definately be tough, no doubt. I'm using Phoenix 0.2 atm, wich has all the convienance of FF minus the mem leaks =D