GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-05 09:08, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrej Mitrovic"<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.3178.1301970383.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On 4/5/11, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a>  wrote:
>>> After all, I
>>> *really* want to get around to making my own web browser (based off
>>> either
>>> Mozilla or Chromium) - I'm getting really fed up with the current state
>>> of
>>> available web browsers. Well, and the web as a whole (god I fucking hate
>>> the
>>> web), but one step at a time, I guess).
>>
>> I'll be the first to install it.
>>
>> Btw, there's a full web browser example in the QtD sources. But it has
>> to be ported to D2. And then you have to deal with any eventual bugs
>> along the way. :]
>
> Ha! I may not need to do much after all: I was just looking through
> Wikipedia's giant list of browsers, found a few that looked potentially
> promising, tried them all and...well, was mostly disappointed. But the
> *last* one I had left to try I've been really impressed with so far:
>
> Arora (Qt/WebKit)
> http://code.google.com/p/arora/
>
> I've only tried it breifly, but the UI is *actually nice*! Only modern
> browser out there with a UI that isn't absolutely horrid. I didn't even see
> *one* instance of invisible-text on my light-on-dark system, which is
> unbeleivavly rare among all software these days.
>
> And it has a lot of essential stuff built in, like ad blocking, disableable
> JS, and a "ClickToFlash" which I haven't tried out yet. There's still a few
> things it seems like it might be missing, like equivalents to NoScript,
> BetterPrivacy and maybe DownloadHelper and DownThemAll, but most of those
> are less important to me, and even as it is right now it's a damn good
> start. Maybe I could add some of that remaining stuff, or heck, maybe even
> port the whole thing to D ;)

I think it looks quite similar to Firefox, at least the Mac OS X version.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg