Comment by ๐Ÿง the_mantelman

Re: "A small non-functional browser"

In: u/LucasMW

So, where can I find the source code?

๐Ÿง the_mantelman

2025-06-03 ยท 11 months ago

Poll Results

1. yes

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2. no

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2 Later Comments โ†“

๐Ÿš€ LucasMW [OP] ยท 2025-06-03 at 19:50:

I haven't publish it anywhere except snippets. It still buggy and unfinished. I don't know if I want to opensource it either.

๐Ÿš€ LucasMW [OP] ยท 2025-06-04 at 20:53:

Added some code which renders gemtext as an example.

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Original Post

๐Ÿš€ LucasMW

A small non-functional browser โ€” I've been coding a small 'browser' from scratch these days. The idea was to keep dependencies at minimum. So, I would use raw sockets to do everything and use raylib to render it. In the end I gave up understanding how open_ssl cryptography worked from specification and ended up just calling openssl and including it as dependency. it can handle [http link] [https link] (both on text mode) and did I say it can also display gemini capsules if given a [gemini link]...

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