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ast3r3xast3r3x
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I have a web browser in the planning and am looking for some programmers that want to take part. I'm developing the GUI and some key aspects that will make this web browser better then other but horribly need help with the programming. I am looking to make it freeware at first, and maybe eventually shareware (you'd get a portion of any profits...haha possibly larger then me), but it will be freeware for the beginning. If anyone is interested in contributing, reply or contact me somehow.



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  • Reply 1 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Good luck! Seriously. You'll need it.



    If what you're building is anything like what the Chimera project is doing, you're in for a real heap of hard work.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>Good luck! Seriously. You'll need it.



    If what you're building is anything like what the Chimera project is doing, you're in for a real heap of hard work.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    yeah, i'm not working on the fastest, just the best, i'm mostly going for stability, smoothness, and some tweaks so users don't get annoyed...i'd like to make it a cocoa app first, see what people think, then port it over if anyone likes it. Is it that hard to make a browser that just loads webpages, nothing else special (at first)
  • Reply 3 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>Is it that hard to make a browser that just loads webpages, nothing else special (at first)</strong><hr></blockquote>Yes.



    So, wait, are you saying you're going to build *everything* from the ground up? Rendering engine and all? From the way you worded it, I originally thought you meant you were just going to build the GUI and use something like Gecko as the back-end.



    Wow. Man, that takes some ****in' skills. I don't mean to discourage you, but it's gonna be a hell of a lot of work. Do you know that it took five years just to get Mozilla up to version 1.0? And that's with the help of hundreds of programmers across the world! Enter "about:credits" in Mozilla to see just how many people work on Mozilla.



    Good luck indeed. Yowza. :eek:
  • Reply 4 of 8
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    I wasn't planning on using my own rendering engine no...and come to think of it, my comment was just plain old stupid because it did make it sound like that. haha honestly i'm not even really sure how to apply a custom GUI to the open sorce code
  • Reply 5 of 8
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>I wasn't planning on using my own rendering engine no...and come to think of it, my comment was just plain old stupid because it did make it sound like that. haha honestly i'm not even really sure how to apply a custom GUI to the open sorce code</strong><hr></blockquote>



    So, ummm, you haven't got any idea how to do this? Maybe you should do some background work first, before you enlist the help of others. Or maybe I'm wrong. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 6 of 8
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [quote]Originally posted by torifile:

    <strong>



    So, ummm, you haven't got any idea how to do this? Maybe you should do some background work first, before you enlist the help of others. Or maybe I'm wrong. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    haha, well see i'm alot better at design then I am programming...actually i'm not even that good at design, i have better ideas...so basically i'm looking for peole that want my ideas to make them into something...
  • Reply 7 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Browser market is saturated all to hell these days. The last thing I need is another beta browser to screw up the way my sites render. Don't even get me started on what they managed to do to the latest revision of the Gecko engine... god dammit



    I'm not going to sound like an elitist ass here, but some things to consider...



    1) What, you mind, makes a great web browser? You said your's would not be the fastest, rather it would be the best. What constitutes "the best"?

    2) Did you have ideas for functionality not currently available in any web browser shipping today? Have you looking into customizing the user interface in some of the current browsers that offer it?

    3) Perhaps you should send a feedback email to one of the development teams of your current favorite browser. The Chimera guy is all about making a nice, slim, fast browser, and I'm sure that he would welcome any feedback. The open source geeks who work on mozilla source instead of getting laid would probably love to read your comments too... I mean, they've got nothing better to do



    So think about that. You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and having something custom made is always very expensive... and not just monetarily. See if you can establish a dialogue with developers of a current browser, and perhaps make your suggestions to them.



    Good luck.
  • Reply 8 of 8
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>I don't mean to discourage you, but it's gonna be a hell of a lot of work. Do you know that it took five years just to get Mozilla up to version 1.0? And that's with the help of hundreds of programmers across the world! </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Just to reiterate that, the development time probably equates to hundreds of man years. :eek:
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