I heard MIT CS can do this...

I read in a newspaper that MIT's CS (or is it EECS) teach their students how to build a web browser...wow. Do you University have those kind of courses?

Reply 1

ttx

newman24x

I read in a newspaper that MIT's CS (or is it EECS) teach their students how to build a web browser...wow. Do you University have those kind of courses?

Building a web-browser isn't rocket science, after you've done a CS degree at any decent uni you should have the capabilty to put together a basic web browser. The main part of the browser is just an HTML rendering engine, which just goes through the html+css and figures out placement of everything before drawing it. A web browser is probably one of the more complex pieces of software on the desktop, but it's not particularly sophisticated.

Reply 2

Psyk

Yeah I don't think there's anything fundamentally difficult about building a simple web browser. It would be a huge amount of work to include all the features people would be expecting though. For example, a javascript interpreter, plug-in support, etc.

Reply 3

newman24x

hurm...any good site that offers tutorial that shows how to build one? maybe i should get started than :smile:

What kind of language you use to build your browser?

Reply 4

Gimperial

Our "build an OS" project is probably the hardest 2nd year coursework :tongue:

Reply 5

fais

wais

Our "build an OS" project is probably the hardest 2nd year coursework :tongue:

Agreed. Have fun. ;P

Reply 6

Psyk

newman24x

hurm...any good site that offers tutorial that shows how to build one? maybe i should get started than :smile:

What kind of language you use to build your browser?

I doubt you'd find a tutorial for the whole thing. But you might be able to find articles that deal with the subproblems involved (such as parsing HTML, rendering the images, etc.).

You could use any language you want. Perhaps a Java browser could be a bit slow, but it could still be done.