Balayer Balayer is yet another web browser.
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Balayer is yet another web browser. Only HTML, text and images are rendered. It has the peculiarity to be entirely written in Python, though based on many C-written pieces.The idea of it came because I like Opera's way of browsing, but it is too buggy on Linux, so when I saw someone had written a HTML rendering widget with rather few dependencies, I decided to write my own web browser.This has led me to write other software pieces that are needed to run balayer for the most part: python-gdkinput, python-cschtml, gladepyc. The latter was independant from Balayer at start, but finally I decided that Balayer would be a good demonstration for it; At the same time, I had to implement features in gladepyc to implement Balayer, so they both benefitted from each other.Here are some key features of "Balayer":· Single window navigation: web pages are displayed in a notebook rather than in separate Windows.· Clicking on a link displays the new page systematically in a new tab, and does not focus it automatically. This is to ease parallel loading of pages.· Non-blocking loading: you can continue viewing pages while documents and images are loading.· Bookmark manager: shows and manage separate bookmark trees for each supported bookmark format. No native bookmark format, it uses others'. Planned: Opera, Lynx, Netscape.· Should be quite fast and light (memory and disk footprint); At least it is on my host.Requirements:· Python (1.5.2)· Gtk+ (1.2.8)· gdk-pixbuf (0.9.0)· libart (2.2.0)· PyGtk (0.6.6)· CscHTML (1.1.0)· python-cschtml (0.5)· python-gdkinput (0.5) Here are some key features of "Balayer": · Single window navigation: web pages are displayed in a notebook rather than in separate Windows. · Clicking on a link displays the new page systematically in a new tab, and does not focus it automatically. This is to ease parallel loading of pages. · Non-blocking loading: you can continue viewing pages while documents and images are loading. · Bookmark manager: shows and manage separate bookmark trees for each supported bookmark format. No native bookmark format, it uses others'. Planned: Opera, Lynx, Netscape. · Should be quite fast and light (memory and disk footprint); At least it is on my host. Requirements: · Python (1.5.2) · Gtk (1.2.8) · gdk-pixbuf (0.9.0) · libart (2.2.0) · PyGtk (0.6.6) · CscHTML (1.1.0) · python-cschtml (0.5) · python-gdkinput (0.5)

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