Adrian Cochrane

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I thought I would share my advice from implementing Rhapsode: I would advise to not support JavaScript when implementing your own browser engine. This is less about JavaScript itself (though...

I can point you to Odysseus's code for this, but first I want to ask: What UX do you want here? I might even implement it, but I want to...

Hmmm, that (optionally combined with a confirmation dialog like you have external links) should be more straightforward than what I've done in Odysseus. My aversion to popups lead me to...

I'll try implementing this myself.

I've almost got it working! Though I'm struggling with implementing the "show in folder button", any tips?

One use case I can imagine is to allow setting any image you find online as your desktop wallpaper. Btw, I'm interested in doing the same thing in Odysseus, I'm...

I've gone over your feedback and incorporated it into my pull request.

@biswaz I stated as much on Slack, but there's unfortunately a surprisingly subtle blocker on browsers supporting a Switchboard setting for a default search engine: autocompletion. There's no standard amongst...

Yes, I don't think it should be part of the application launcher search anyways, because that has privacy implications. But many browsers will want to make sure it works for...

Hmmm, I'm not sure what to advise then. It wouldn't be hard to add a search engine configuration option for this feature to use, the challenge is with getting browsers...