Comments on: Mecca: A new social browser

By: Yansky

Yansky — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:47:59 +0000

Is this browser no longer being worked on? The site seems to be gone.

By: shokk

shokk — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:40:50 +0000

Not made to also work with Firefox? Booooo!

By: itod

itod — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:47 +0000

@MorganRoderick u r absolutely right. Mecca simply uses the WebKit framework that is already on your machine (the same as Safari and many others). Therefore, Mecca will *not* impose any new testing responsibilities on web developers or web framework engineers.

As for market share… well, that is definitely not the goal with this project. Mecca is simply an attempt to explore some ideas for advancing the state of the art in web browsing. If any of the ideas are worthwhile, they will probably propagate to other browsers… just as Mecca has taken inspiration from the browsers that exist today.

Mecca is a niche project, and that is all it’s meant to be. Even a sliver of a percent of all web users is a massive audience for a single developer tinkering on nights and weekends ;0]. And that’s perfectly fine with me. :0]

By: MorganRoderick

MorganRoderick — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:39:54 +0000

If this has a similar impact on browsing, as Fluid has had on my webapps experience, I think it’s going to be huge.

Nosredna: I would imagine that it is based on one of the major rendering engines, so as long as you’re compatible with the big 4, you should be fine.

No single individual is going to implement a browser from scratch these days.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:38:13 +0000

@eyelidlessness

Just seems silly, when FF, Opera, Safari are able to hit multiple targets. If it’s relegated to such a small slice, will anyone even test against it? Will jQuery and Dojo bother to support it?

As long as it sticks to standards pretty well, I guess it’ll be OK, but I’d be a lot more excited about it if I saw potential for it to affect IE’s market share. :-)

By: itod

itod — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:06:37 +0000

Thanks for the mention Dion. I’m flattered. @diogo: sorry, the app isn’t available just yet, but very very soon. Stay tuned. thx.

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:16:51 +0000

@Nosredna:

So?

By: Jeria

Jeria — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:51:22 +0000

Wow, yet another browser for Mac OS X. Somebody please update this list: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200710/mac_os_x_web_browser_rundown_2007/

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:46:54 +0000

Looks Mac-only. If it stays that way, it’s doomed to a pretty small slice of pie.

By: diogo

diogo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:49:05 +0000

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