Could I create a web browser for free? (Legally)?
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by admin
I just got something in my interest. I think It would be totally cool to make a web browser and name it anything and give it a style. But is it possible to create one for free? If so linksss?
Yes it it totally legal but you need to learn a programming language like C++ (Firefox is written in this)or Java you should probably know some XML, and you should know HTML and Javascript, if you are planning on do this yourself.
January 24th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Yes it it totally legal but you need to learn a programming language like C++ (Firefox is written in this)or Java you should probably know some XML, and you should know HTML and Javascript, if you are planning on do this yourself.
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January 24th, 2010 at 2:14 am
There are many ways to make a web browser. The hardest would to be to write the whole thing yourself, which is a monumental task. Much more within someone’s ability is to take a browser engine, like Gecko (Firefox’s) or WebKit (Safari/Chrome (sort of)). Then you would bind a user interface to it. I actually did that in about two hours with WebKit, GTK+, and Glade and made a usable, although minimal browser. I would look at the WebKit project. It’s nice and small, and has a decent API for most things. You do need to know C or C++ for sure. Java won’t help you at all, but something like Python could.
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January 24th, 2010 at 2:48 am
you should start out by making Firefox extentions and learning the basics of how browsers work, don’t forget that Firefox is open source so you are able to edit it to suit your own needs, when you get to that level then you wil know what to do.
I read somewhere that Google Chrome is build on the Firefox framework… Not sure how true that is as I build websites and not browsers.
Good Luck
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