GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-05 21:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:inf285$30n8$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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.
>>
>
> On windows it looks *very* different from firefox (unless you count FF 1.x).
> Maybe FF actually bothers trying to integrate with the system on OSX, but on
> windows the out-of-the-box installs of FF2+ (and especially FF3+) are
> skinned, flashy atrocities. Not nearly as horrific as Chrome, but still ugly
> as hell. Also Arora doesn't have FF's AwfulBar.

I'm referring to Firefox 4. What's the "AwfulBar" ?

> Plus, Arora doesn't have the unified forward/back dropdowns. The unified
> forward/back dropdowns sounded good when I first heard about them, but ever
> since I tried them I've absolutely hated them.
>
>
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/Jacob Carlborg