Lobo Browser 0.97.5

[lobochief]

Lobo is an open source web browser that is written entirely in Java. It is being developed with the aim to support HTML 4, Javascript and CSS2. The general goal of the project is to produce a browser that is fast, easy to extend, secure and feature-rich.

Lobo is being released along with its pure Java rendering engine, Cobra. Version 0.97.5 introduces a BrowserPanel class, improved float layout and many bug fixes. Please see the changelog for details.

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[rdelaplante]

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Originally Posted by lobochief

Lobo is an open source web browser that is written entirely in Java. It is being developed with the aim to support HTML 4, Javascript and CSS2. The general goal of the project is to produce a browser that is fast, easy to extend, secure and feature-rich.

Lobo is being released along with its pure Java rendering engine, Cobra. Version 0.97.5 introduces a BrowserPanel class, improved float layout and many bug fixes. Please see the changelog for details.

Browser Home: Lobo: Java Web Browser
Download: Download Lobo (Free Java Web Browser)
Changelog: SourceForge.net: Files
SourceForge.net Project Page: SourceForge.net: Lobo - Java Web Browser

It looks like a lot of time and effort has gone into this project. Nice work! However I am wondering why this project was started instead of contributing to the existing Flying Saucer project which has been around since 2004? https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ Also the Mozilla Rhino JavaScript engine : Rhino - JavaScript for Java

These projects seem more complete, but nobody has integrated them into a usable web browser application yet as far as I know.


Thanks,
Ryan

[lobochief]

Rhino is actually integrated into Cobra and Lobo. As fas as Flying Saucer, I did consider using it as a starting point for the HTML capability (Lobo started out as a browser for a language named XAMJ and HTML came later). After discussing with the maintainers of Flying Saucer, it appeared that we wanted to take the projects in different directions. It just didn't happen - whether that was the right or wrong decision at the time is a different matter.