Browsers in D

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 00:07:44 UTC, Adam D Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:40:48 UTC, Antonio wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Oh, I'm old enough to remember the Chrome auto-update that 
> broke standard HTML links! It was such a pain supporting it in 
> the first few years, while IE and Firefox were both working 
> pretty well at the time.
>
> But, like I just said in the other post, Firefox has near-zero 
> support for being embedded in other applications. If you know 
> of a way that we could reasonably use from D, let me know, but 
> the only time I've seen an embedded Gecko is actually in the 
> Wine project... and this had no other way to access it that I 
> could find.
>
>> [...]
>
> Mozilla has closed *dozens* of bugs that affect me directly as 
> WONTFIX, including fairly simple to fix regressions. That's why 
> I can't use it anymore.
>
>> [...]
>
> If you wanna work on my other engine to bring it up to spec, 
> feel free lol, but the screenshots speak to the functionality 
> gap...

When I was the CTO of my previous company, we embedded Gecko into 
a custom C++ GUI framework, to allow ALS people browse the web 
using gazes as an input method: it was a real pain ...