Old plans

[ghost]

Development goals

Present concerns

• Completely rebuild UI after port to GTK4
  • Rebuilding UI from Glade file
  • Update code documentation afterwards
• Update workflows to build dependencies
• Tab indicator icons (like showing when audio is playing; toggle mute when clicked)
• Dragging tabs to form new window
• UI element to select native or API-based IPFS protocol handling (perhaps a button with a popover, placed between the downloads and the finder?)
• Switch CLI backend from clap crate to gtk::Application
• Find code should enable or disable some find option buttons based on what's enabled
  • WEBKIT_FIND_OPTIONS_TREAT_MEDIAL_CAPITAL_AS_WORD_START should only be available if WEBKIT_FIND_OPTIONS_AT_WORD_STARTS is on
• Find code should restart search if option buttons change
• Find should implement keyboard shortcuts from search bar
• URL parsing should be handled with Servo
• Experiment with sending IPFS data to scheme handler directly instead of pointing to file
• Experiment with switching from HTTP IPFS API to actual IPFS (http://rustipfs.com/)
• Implement 'New Tab' and 'Error' pages (include in binary)
  • Google Safe Browsing
• Implement what's left from the WebKitGTK programming cookbook
  • Permissions requests
  • Searching text
  • Context menu
    • New tabs
    • New windows
    • Downloads
  • Script dialogs
  • Printing
  • Plugins
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Notifications
• Support for Gemini, Gopher, Finger (it can be done)
• Support for FTP

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Alpha release

• Tabs
• Branding

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Beta release

• IPFS directory browser
• User-friendly error pages
• Settings menu
• History viewer
• Extension support
• Bookmarks bar
• Navigation bar pop-ups
• Reading mode
• PDF viewer
• Built-in adblocker
• Back-Forward list when right-clicking navigation buttons

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Long-term

• Switch to Servo from WebKit (if & when Servo matures)
• Switch from IPFS API + Go IPFS to Rust implementation of IPFS (if & when Rust IPFS matures)
• Implement Hyperdrive support (if & when Rust Dat/colmeia matures)
• Implement Orion WebKit modifications (when Kagi release their changes to WebKit)

[emmyoh]

Muddy inspiration:

• Asynchronous collaboration
  • Sharing replicas with other authors, live syncing
• Feeding browser history into LLM, having it recall information (with links)