GUI library for D

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

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 ;)

Even it it would involve looking at C++ code?

Did you know Arora *is* the Qt webbrowser example that got out of control  
and became a real browser? (it uses webkit)

iirc QtD has a sizeable chunk of that example already ported to D.