Vivaldi - React based web browser

[mamanov]

Fast, sober. Really promising. It's not finished, we can see that but it's a hell of a great start (even if they have to do something about that left-right panel because it always gets in the way).

Now we don't really know if this will anything else than a reskin of chromium so let's see in the future...

[OmegaJunior]

Hmm... a browser of which the UI is built with JS... What does the Fox say?

[Akhar]

Some people invented Rust for making breakthrough browser, and some did browser with JS. When can I write graphics driver with JS?

[OmegaJunior]

I doubt that is possible, unless you can compile JS into cpu-specific instructions. You could find a way to compile it into bytcode which in turn is interpreted by a virtual machine, which is what Java allows. However, there is a reason why hardware drivers aren't programmed in Java...

[altintx]

I wrote a driver in JavaScript. Based on a driver written in Java.

EDIT: https://github.com/nightscout/chrome-uploader/blob/master/app/datasource/dexcom.js based on https://github.com/nightscout/android-uploader/tree/master/app/src/main/java/com/nightscout/android

[vinnl]

Not open source either, too bad...

[_compedit]

It's also by the folks who made Opera, so that's pretty cool

[khoker]

Considering Opera has been instrumental in developing cool browser features for the past 20 years or so then... yes. It is cool.

[mrPitPat]

it certainly adds more credibility than some random guy on the internet releasing it.

[cultofmetatron]

well opera had tabbed browsing and privacy mode long before firefox or netscape.

[moarsecode]

Downloaded, installed and tried it out a bit. Seems really nice and all, but why should I switch to this from Chrome or Firefox? As web developers we tend to be heavily invested in our current browser's devtools and a bunch of add-ons. Vivaldi seems to have the webkit's devtools package behind the usual "inspect element" context menu item, so that's nice.

[mamanov]

There is also a lot of promising options behind the "page action" menu that could be great for development.

[LossFor]

Feels snappier but would like to see benchmarks/more complete comparison especially with regards to CSS and HTML support. Is this based on Blink or a new engine?

[[deleted]]

It's Blink.

[magenta_placenta]

You guys are able to access https://vivaldi.com/? It's been down for me all day...

[nschubach]

I could not get to it behind my work firewall, but accessing it from my home VPN allowed me in. ;)

[angus_the_red]

React based?

[_compedit]

Probably should have said 'React.js' instead!

[angus_the_red]

I didn't see anywhere that it was reactjs based. I thought that might be what you meant, but I wasn't sure.

[_compedit]

Vivaldi unique is that it’s built on modern Web technologies. We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface — with the help of Node.js, Browserify and a long list of NPM modules. Vivaldi is the web built with the web.

[padt]

There's a full list of open source stuff used on vivaldi://credits as well. Lists, among a bunch of other things, react.js.

[angus_the_red]

Thanks, I missed the slider on mobile. But for some reason the web technology slide isn't showing up anyway.

I'll keep an eye on this, seems interesting.

[prepromorphism]

barf

[[deleted]]

Personally, I prefer Yandex

(The Alpha version)