Homebrew WIP My web browser project for Nintendo Switch!

[XorTroll]

Hi everybody!

First of all, this is just a planned project, it's not sure that it'll be released, and if so it would be ready in a long time, because it's a long project.

In case I wanted to create my own renderer:
- As I did with Brew.js, we already have a way to process and evaluate JavaScript, using duktape embeddable engine.
- We have Gumbo parser, which is a HTML parser, so we can read DOM elements and their attributes.
- I haven't searched for any CSS parser, but I'm sure there are plenty of them for C or C++.
- There are some HTML renderers, but they may be difficult to port, but using SDL2 plus all the interpreters and parsers above, we have the possibility to build a good HTML renderer.
- Using libcurl or any other web libs we can access web files...

Anyway, I may try porting another web browser or renderer, such as librocket or WebKit.

As I said before, this is not a almost-ready project. I've started the development of this idea, but this thread's objective is to speak a bit about this idea.

 

[huma_dawii]

Proof or NEVER happened, we are tired of attention whores.

 

[ShonenJump]

Proof or NEVER happened, we are tired of attention whores.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/brew-js-make-homebrew-apps-with-javascript.504327/ maybe do some research first before attacking someone

 

[Deleted User]

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ seems easier to port (although no JS yet)

or even better, figure out the API the OS uses for the webapplet and just add a little gui to it...

 

[Deleted User]

It's a good idea to wait until you have something to show when you announce it, but I'll definitely be following this

 

[mansonss]

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ seems easier to port (although no JS yet)

or even better, figure out the API the OS uses for the webapplet and just add a little gui to it...

Wouldn't using the built in API still require some way to circumvent Nintendo's whitelist though?

 

[Deleted User]

Wouldn't using the built in API still require some way to circumvent Nintendo's whitelist though?

No, because that seems specific to each html viewer (like the social login can play videos, etc)

 

[ahmio]

Wouldn't porting chromium be easier? Ideally you'd only have to rewrite the renderer, right?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Wouldn't porting chromium be easier? Ideally you'd only have to rewrite the renderer, right?

dont think its that simple

 

[uyjulian]

Wouldn't porting chromium be easier? Ideally you'd only have to rewrite the renderer, right?

Horizon OS doesn't use POSIX API so porting chromium would be a pain.

Chromium already works great on Switch Linux.

 

[ANTONIOPS]

@XorTroll

There was a web browser for NDS (I never tried it)

https://github.com/deeice/bunjalloo

you could try to port it.

 

[stewacide]

There's already a renderer in the Switch firmware, used when you sign into social media and public wifi. Seems fully-featured:

Someone just needs to make a more convenient front-end. No need to re-invent the wheel.

 

[filfat]

EDIT: Remove discouraging remark from me when I was a young prick apparently. Sorry.

 

[sirAnger]

TL;DR: Don't try to make your own browser, please.

Where would we be if not for people trying things? @XorTroll, go for it. If it sucks, nobody loses anything. If it's awesome then we all win.

 

[XorTroll]

As I said I'm just trying to do it, it's not a project which I plan definitely to release, I'll do what I can. As @sirAnger said, we won't lose anything if I'm not able to carry on with such a big project.
Btw I'm not asking if I should start this project on this thread, I made it to inform people about the project I plan to develop, because I think many people would enjoy this kind of projects.

 

[Red1Reaper]

Whit this would be posible to load html5 js games? like the ones made on rpg maker mv?

 

[XorTroll]

Whit this would be posible to load html5 js games? like the ones made on rpg maker mv?

As I said I don't even know how I will manage to do this, so I have no idea about what I'll be able to parse or handle.
Now I'm thinking about porting librocket (https://github.com/libRocket/libRocket), as it looks good.

 

[filfat]

@XorTroll

I have taken a quick look at doing something similar https://github.com/filfat/SimpleWebNX/
but I still think that you should just use the web applet as soon as that's possible.

(This would mostly be a hobby project to better understand how a browser handles the DOM)

 

[Mr. Wizard]

Fuck the browser, finish nspower first!

https://gbatemp.net/threads/nspower-switch-title-installer-manager-and-more.513485/

 

[Shrike]

Whit this would be posible to load html5 js games? like the ones made on rpg maker mv?

THIS would be sooooo great! <3

BTW: There is a official RPGMaker MV planed for Nintendo Switch (&PS4, &XBOXone), which will come out in 2019.
You can already preorder it for $59.99 ^___^

Trailer:

But I guess this version will not be able to play the games made on the PC version (or be able to run all those great JS Plugins written by the community..)
But well .. we will see ..