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mckinley
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@prologic Here's the screenshot gallery on their website demonstrating all the platforms it runs on. NetSurf is awesome! I'm surprised you haven't heard of it. It's a truly independent Web browser that uses its own custom rendering engine and focuses on portability and low resource usage. It supports most of HTML 4.1/CSS2 plus it has experimental JavaScript support.
prologic
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@mckinley Yeah I really can't say I have to be honest 😳 When was it made? What is it's ihstory?

Oh nevermind, I'll go look it up 😅
prologic
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@mckinley Yeah I really can't say I have to be honest 😳 When was it made? What is it's ihstory?

Oh nevermind, I'll go look it up 😅
prologic
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Poo 💩 No macOS build?! 🤦‍♂️ Do they now recognize macOS as a valid UNIX-like OS? 😂
prologic
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Poo 💩 No macOS build?! 🤦‍♂️ Do they now recognize macOS as a valid UNIX-like OS? 😂
mckinley
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@prologic The home page mentions OS X, maybe you need to compile it.
prologic
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@mckinley Probably, but as I said elsewhere, I'm not going to go to that level of effort 😅
prologic
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@mckinley Probably, but as I said elsewhere, I'm not going to go to that level of effort 😅
mckinley
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Fair enough. Its's not on Homebrew, but it is on MacPorts if you use that. https://ports.macports.org/port/NetSurf/
prologic
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@mckinley It used to be on Homebrew actually according to this blog post but I suspect it got removed for _some_ reason or another. I'm cloning the full homebrew/cask repo to find out why...
prologic
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@mckinley It used to be on Homebrew actually according to this blog post but I suspect it got removed for _some_ reason or another. I'm cloning the full homebrew/cask repo to find out why...
prologic
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There we go:


commit c78a87a49573dd4df613bc6f04f66acf28b5b4da
Author: Gianni Tam-McMillan <25732197+gtmgianni@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed May 27 20:46:54 2020 +0100

    Remove netsurf (#83291)


=> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/83291

Why?

> No longer appears to offer a macOS download

Poo 😢 I guess this is the upstream author's fault here. Not Homebrew's 😅=
prologic
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There we go:


commit c78a87a49573dd4df613bc6f04f66acf28b5b4da
Author: Gianni Tam-McMillan <25732197+gtmgianni@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed May 27 20:46:54 2020 +0100

    Remove netsurf (#83291)


=> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/83291

Why?

> No longer appears to offer a macOS download

Poo 😢 I guess this is the upstream author's fault here. Not Homebrew's 😅=
prologic
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adi
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@mckinley NetSurf is pretty cool, I agree!
prologic
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@adi / @mckinley If _someone_ convinces the author / maintainers upstream to continue supporting macOS builds and get the Homebrew Cask reinstated, I'll consider installing it 😅
prologic
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@adi / @mckinley If _someone_ convinces the author / maintainers upstream to continue supporting macOS builds and get the Homebrew Cask reinstated, I'll consider installing it 😅
thecanine
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@prologic I'm no Mac expert, as you can probably tell, but I'm somewhat familiar with the browser development scene and know that quite a few browsers dropped their Mac support in 2021, because they didn't have the resources (or much of a reason) to port their browsers to M1. Not helping was the fact that development for Macs is hard for those working on non-Apple devices, so browser developers had to rely on Mac-owning volunteers willing to help. The number of those volunteers was also shrinking, since most Mac users just use one of the mainstream browsers these days, even more than those on other platforms - probably thanks to the AppStore.