kernel+libsystem: Add networking support.

[skift-org]

kernel+libsystem: Add networking support.

[cristian-programmer]

Hi, Nicolas is working on a new kernel, I think these features will be added later, but let's wait for comments

we want to take to other architectures
the new kernel

[sleepy-monax]

Networking open the gate for a lot of features: package manager, IRC client/server, web servers, etc

[masterneko]

Networking is kinda useless if you don't have a web browser. I'm not an expert in web browsers but I am pretty certain that it would be quite hard to make your own browser from scratch. Firefox would need to ported over to skiftOS (it wouldn't be easy but it would be easier than creating you own)

[masterneko]

@Not-Nik What about LiteHTML - https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml. It's a lightweight and fast html reader with css support. It does not render the images, fonts, text, etc though but it is easy to add that functionality.

[Not-Nik]

Looks like a valid choice. Personally I found that Modest (https://github.com/lexborisov/Modest) looked really good. It does at least handle fonts

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[Not-Nik]

When making a web browser/porting one consider first using some open source HTML renderer. These can't interpret JS so sites like YouTube won't work, but they can give a solid base that can be easily ported.

[masterneko]

@Not-Nik looks good, the problem is a lot of libraries depend on the C++ standard template library (STL) but most of the STL is not available to it. In OS development you are expected to implement the STL yourself. skiftOS already has a few parts of the STL implemented but not enough for these libraries.

Things like maps and smart pointers. These things would have to be added first. But because Modest is based on C it won't use the STL. So good choice

[sleepy-monax]

I have a design drafted for the network stack and the intel e1000 device driver is nearly working :)

[pixl8dev]

You could port over Chromium...

[masterneko]

@pixl-8 A web browser can be written 500 lines of code but a good web browser requires lot's of code. Chromium has tens of thousands of lines of code. Trying to port that would be a very time consuming job

[viveksh1]

@pixl-8 A web browser can be written 500 lines of code but a good web browser requires lot's of code. Chromium has tens of thousands of lines of code. Trying to port that would be a very time consuming job

I absolutely agree with you. But there are some minimal, easy-to-use web browsers that we could port to SkiftOS. I recommend watching these videos on some great candidates. Searching For The Right Minimal Browser - DistroTube and BadWolf Is A Minimal, Privacy-Oriented Web Browser - DistroTube

[a11y-spec]

I will try my best