Post #1434573

2026-02-27 09:05 UTC

@ohir Sorry for the late response. I've only heard briefly about it. From a few simple tests ... NetSurf might have a future, but it would need to improve the page rendering by a lot. It can't even display a fairly simple site like lwn.net with the right colours. I've added a comparison from another "lightweight" browser, Epiphany from GNOME.

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@ohir@social.vivaldi.net 2026-02-27 15:33

@dazo > NetSurf might have a future, but it would need to improve the page rendering by a lot. And here we, I mean we FLOSS creators and users, have the biggest problem: we are used to say "they would need to improve". "They" are supposed to have resources to improve. Or "they" are supposed to find a backing corpo funds and then do something for "us". Uh, then we'd balk at "them" for being not enough pure having a corpo sponsor. Time to start thinking about reversing this trend. What about scaling down the features to the bare bones that are needed for _useable_enough_ environment in which a small teams of passionate hobbyists can maintain useful tools? I can't browse youtube nor github with NetSurf. Yet it is good enough to browse Wikipedia. I would like to see the webs being accessible from the NetSurf and similar engines. Or at least that 0.1% of web content that matters.

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