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What do we need to build a modern WebKit-based browser?

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barracuda156

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TFF is no more, and anyway FF is grumpy. How about building a modern Webkit-based browser?
To be honest, I do not yet conceive the difficulty involved. However, as a first step, I did fix building all essential dependencies for WebKit2-gtk for PowerPC, including the latest versions of gstreamer1 with its huge plugins family and libsoup3.

Then I managed to get through configure errors of WebKit2-gtk, and, needless to say, after that the build failed on a silly error: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64994

Config log for the record:
Code: 
--->  Configuring webkit2-gtk
Executing:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/build" && /opt/local/bin/cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MacPorts -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/opt/local" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_NAME_DIR="/opt/local/lib" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH="/opt/local;/usr" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="$CC" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="$CXX" -DCMAKE_OBJC_COMPILER="$CC" -DCMAKE_OBJCXX_COMPILER="$CXX" -DCMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0025=NEW -DCMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0060=NEW -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK=LAST -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=ninja -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH="/opt/local/share/cmake/Modules" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/opt/local/share/cmake/Modules" -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH:BOOL=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH="/opt/local/lib" -Wno-dev -DPORT=GTK -DENABLE_INTROSPECTION=ON -DENABLE_VIDEO=ON -DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON -DPERL_EXECUTABLE=/opt/local/bin/perl5.28 -DUSE_WPE_RENDERER=OFF -DENABLE_GAMEPAD=OFF -DENABLE_JOURNALD_LOG=OFF -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="PPC" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR="PPC" -DUSE_GSTREAMER_GL=OFF -DENABLE_WEB_CRYPTO=OFF -DRUBY_EXECUTABLE=/opt/local/bin/ruby2.5 -DENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET=OFF -DENABLE_X11_TARGET=ON -DENABLE_OPENGL=ON -DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="ppc" -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.6" -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT="/" /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/webkitgtk-2.36.0 
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
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-- Found ZLIB: /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib (found version "1.2.12") 
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-- Using source list file: Sources.txt
-- Using source list file: platform/SourcesCairo.txt
-- Using source list file: platform/SourcesSoup.txt
-- Using source list file: SourcesGTK.txt
-- Using source list file: platform/SourcesGLib.txt
-- Looking for shm_open
-- Looking for shm_open - found
-- Using platform-specific CMakeLists: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/webkitgtk-2.36.0/Source/WebKit/PlatformGTK.cmake
-- Using source list file: Sources.txt
-- Using source list file: SourcesGTK.txt
-- Performing Test CXX_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_-fobjc-weak
-- Performing Test CXX_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_-fobjc-weak - Failed
-- Using platform-specific CMakeLists: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/webkitgtk-2.36.0/Source/WebDriver/PlatformGTK.cmake
-- Using platform-specific CMakeLists: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/webkitgtk-2.36.0/Source/PlatformGTK.cmake
-- Found Gettext: /opt/local/bin/msgmerge (found version "0.21") 
-- Using platform-specific CMakeLists: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_www_webkit2-gtk/webkit2-gtk/work/webkitgtk-2.36.0/Tools/PlatformGTK.cmake
-- Enabled features:
--  ENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX ..................... OFF
--  ENABLE_DRAG_SUPPORT                             ON
--  ENABLE_GAMEPAD ................................ OFF
--  ENABLE_GLES2                                    OFF
--  ENABLE_GTKDOC ................................. OFF
--  ENABLE_INTROSPECTION                            ON
--  ENABLE_JOURNALD_LOG ........................... OFF
--  ENABLE_MEDIA_SOURCE                             ON
--  ENABLE_MINIBROWSER ............................ ON
--  ENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET                            OFF
--  ENABLE_SPELLCHECK ............................. ON
--  ENABLE_TOUCH_EVENTS                             ON
--  ENABLE_VIDEO .................................. ON
--  ENABLE_WAYLAND_TARGET                           OFF
--  ENABLE_WEBDRIVER .............................. ON
--  ENABLE_WEB_AUDIO                                ON
--  ENABLE_WEB_CRYPTO ............................. OFF
--  ENABLE_X11_TARGET                               ON
--  USE_ANGLE_WEBGL ............................... OFF
--  USE_AVIF                                        OFF
--  USE_GTK4 ...................................... OFF
--  USE_JPEGXL                                      OFF
--  USE_LCMS ...................................... ON
--  USE_LIBHYPHEN                                   ON
--  USE_LIBNOTIFY ................................. ON
--  USE_LIBSECRET                                   ON
--  USE_OPENGL_OR_ES .............................. ON
--  USE_OPENJPEG                                    ON
--  USE_SOUP2 ..................................... OFF
--  USE_WOFF2                                       ON
--  USE_WPE_RENDERER .............................. OFF
-- Configuring done

I imagine I am probably trying to “invent a bicycle” and do something that has been already done with more success. Therefore suggestions are greatly appreciated.

P. S. Ideally, I wanna have either Tor-based browser or even i2p-based: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pdbrowser
Both use FF at the moment though. Tor itself (CLI) builds for PPC, i2pd is not yet ready, but likely will get fixed soon. I was able to build in on 10.6.8 for PPC yesterday. WIP here: https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/issues/1726
 
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Web 2.0 is such crapware!

Old computers just don't age like wine. I don't find Web 2.0 to be of much more use than the older Web that run well on our PPC machines. I don't know if it's just a heavy CPU dependent JAVA scripting, just flat out sloppy coding of modern web pages, or all the bounces off servers for ads.

I suspect it's mostly sloppy coding, when you just presume anyone viewing your webpage is on a modern computer with a bunch of CPU cycles to spare it easy to create crapware.

Older sites like Xlr8yourmac still load and run fast and don't lack any functionality that I would miss from Web 2.0. Part of this for us PPC users is just the TLS apocalypse, we just don't have an up to date browser with current security certificates, but load CNN.com on a modern Mac and look at the memory usage of that Webpage in the Activity Monitor, it's 300+MB. Total crapware seems to be the rule not the exception with Web 2.0.

I don't get anymore from reading the news at CNN.com today than I did in 2005 and popover auto play videos in HD just annoy the **** out of me.

To me, what makes a functional computer is a fast web browser, light web pages with working links to lower quality videos, an email client that is light and fast, *nix based OS with functioning emulators so I can run older software that may only run on outdated OS's, and 2D graphics acceleration so I don't see window tearing.

A Quad G5 is more than capable of all of this, it's just the software and the crapware that is Web 2.0 holding us back. Will a Quad G5 playback 4k video without frame skipping? No, but that is just the lack of modern GPU accelerated video playback, the CPU, RAM, and Bus speed are more than enough. Sadly we don't have enough people giving feedback and running FOSS to really contribute much to LinuxPPC developers and Apple left us high and dry years ago without further PPC code for OS X.

Hardware vendors only make money when they can continue to sell you new hardware and I just wonder how much of that has contributed to the crapware that is Web 2.0.
 
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When you think about the 3rd world and the digital divide, or even the first world and the digital divide it will sort of piss you off the way Web 2.0 has been managed. I mean to say that people that have less money to spend may tend to buy older computers that are more affordable, but they have been cut off from the information superhighway that teaches most of us how to properly use these computers and the internet to save time and make $MONEY$.

I use Apple computers because they make me money or save me time, and time is money. I don't have to spend a bunch of time monekying with Registry keys or other outdated bloutwares to make them work. The macOS could be better, it lags Linux in two or three areas that are key to me, my time, and money, but that's just the way it is now to me and what I use my computers for.

So even people with fast enough internet connections are still being cut off because Web 2.0 isn't really backward compliant. Then there is the environmental costs of perfectly capable computers ending up in landfills so Apple/Micro$oft/Dell et. all can sell us something new and shiny cutting out the poor or unprivileged from the vast knowlage available from the Web that can help them live better lives.

Sure, as I said, old computers don't age like wine. I remember installing Mac OS 8.1 on an LCII and an LCIII and trying to load Xlr8youmac.com in Internet Explorer 4.0. The jpegs took forever to loaded I could make all the same complaints about Web 1.0 and the digital divide then as I am making now. I could have said I miss the old text based web, Prodigy, Links2 what have you, but I think there are some key distinctions about how usable the web was for learning new things and being able to apply them to make our lives better about the web in 2005 and the web today.

I just don't find much of anything more useful to those ends today in Web 2.0 as I did with the Web in 2005. I'm not seeing a whole lot more gain in knowledge, money, and time that makes my life better.

I think we peaked as far as how efficient computers were and the internet at some point. Just seems to me todays web and computers are only about 10% more efficient to those ends for me, which means a Quad G5 should be 90% efficient to those ends for someone that can only afford $350 for a computer vs. $6k+ for a new Mac Pro, but a lot of that is my use case. However my use case is very profitable.
 
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I'm all for options and choice is good.

However…I browse using T4Fx because it's customizable. I use Vivaldi on my Intel Macs (that support it) because it's customizable.

Last I checked, Safari/Webkit on Intel and PowerPC lacked the ability to customize it beyond certain limited extensions.

It is NOT and never has been all about speed for me. I am in the browser almost from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. I want it to look, act and work the way I want it to.

If you can make a modern WK browser that is as customizable as TenFourFox/Vivaldi, then I'm in. If it's the same old, but faster, more compatible, then no.

There have been users here that have managed to build their own branded WK browser, so best of luck to you.
 
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TLS 1.3, which was apparently part of the pains that made LWK's dev give up in the first place. That alone would open up probably 80% of sites that don't currently work in LWK.​
 
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