Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

[2009-09-07 21:47] Dieter Plaetinck <dieter_AT_plaetinck.be>
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:35:50 +0200
> markus schnalke <meillo_AT_marmaro.de> wrote:
> >
> > Read my slides, I clearly state this: Take the broken render engine as
> > black box and add sane interfaces around.
> >
> (..)
> >
> > It's the web browser that complies better with the Unix Philosophy
> > than any other I've seen. Only the render engine sucks (of course).
> > But it may get exchanged ... it's only a black box anyway.
>
> "black box" may be just a bit too far, but generally I think yes,
> if the library you depend on works, and you only need to work with it, not on it,
> then it doesn't matter much how ugly or big the codebase is. (as long as the api is reasonable).

Right, it's not a black box ... but it should be.

And the API should also be better.

That's the reason why I call `uzbl' an example ... it's the best
implementation of the concepts I have in mind, I know of.

meillo