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From: Kai Dölger on 31 Jul 2010 09:13
Hey Guys,

I am new to Ruby and wanted to create a little project for learning
Ruby, but it turned out that it would be a lot more work, then I
considered.
My I idea was writing a Ruby Web Browser.

So now I search for programmers interested in this Idea.

Why should we do this: I think everyone uses webbrowsers so we can
achieve an increase of Ruby's popularity.

What is the Problem: We need a good HTML-Render-Engine => LOT of work to
do!
Solution: Teamwork! If there is a big the team the single person has
less work to do then in a small development group.

What we need:
-People who help me with the Design of the Programm
-Programmers familiar with GUI-Programming
-Persons familiar with Webbrowsers an how they work

But I think If the first step is done there will be something like a
layout for the single Renderer Classes so everyone knowing ruby can
contribute somthing to the project!

Hope you will like the Idea. Greets from Germany, Kai
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From: andrew mcelroy on 31 Jul 2010 09:32
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Kai Dölger <kgd92(a)msn.com> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am new to Ruby and wanted to create a little project for learning
> Ruby, but it turned out that it would be a lot more work, then I
> considered.
> My I idea was writing a Ruby Web Browser.

Please no. There are too many browsers to target already.
If you do, please use an existing engine. Please.

>
> So now I search for programmers interested in this Idea.
>
> Why should we do this: I think everyone uses webbrowsers so we can
> achieve an increase of Ruby's popularity.
>
> What is the Problem: We need a good HTML-Render-Engine => LOT of work to
> do!
> Solution: Teamwork! If there is a big the team the single person has
> less work to do then in a small development group.

The security issues you will open are astounding.
Try something less complex first like a small kernel.
If you want to write ruby bindings to webkit, then by all means, have fun.



>
> What we need:
> -People who help me with the Design of the Programm
> -Programmers familiar with GUI-Programming
> -Persons familiar with Webbrowsers an how they work
>
You'll need way more than this. lol.

http://www.w3.org/TR/

have fun reading the several specs you'd need to implement.

You would be doing the world much more good if you were to focus your attention
towards improving the performance of nokogiri or writing a better GC for Ruby.


Andrew McElroy
TryRuby.org

> But I think If the first step is done there will be something like a
> layout for the single Renderer Classes so everyone knowing ruby can
> contribute somthing to the project!
>
> Hope you will like the Idea. Greets from Germany, Kai
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

From: Kai Dölger on 31 Jul 2010 11:08
Andrew Mcelroy wrote:
> writing a better GC for Ruby.

What do you mean with GC!?

Sorry I dont get the gist :D
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From: Dhruva Sagar on 31 Jul 2010 11:20
I think he meant Garbage Collection when he mentioned GC

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Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva Sagar.



On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 20:38, Kai Dölger <kgd92(a)msn.com> wrote:

> Andrew Mcelroy wrote:
> > writing a better GC for Ruby.
>
> What do you mean with GC!?
>
> Sorry I dont get the gist :D
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

From: Martin DeMello on 31 Jul 2010 11:58
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Kai Dölger <kgd92(a)msn.com> wrote:
>
> What is the Problem: We need a good HTML-Render-Engine => LOT of work to
> do!

you don't want to write this yourself. take an existing renderer and
build a browser around it with the features you want. see kazehakase
for example: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/

martin

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