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@@ -1,19 +1,41 @@ # BadWolf Minimalist and privacy-oriented WebKitGTK+ browser +``` Copyright © 2019 Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause +``` The name is a reference to BBC’s Doctor Who Tv serie, I took it simply because I wanted to have a specie in the name, like some other web browsers do, but doesn’t go into the “gentle” zone. -Target: https://hacktivis.me/articles/www-client%20are%20broken +## Differencies +Comparing from other small WebKit browsers for unixes found in the wild: + +- Independent of environment, should just work if GTK and WebKitGTK does +- Static UI, no element should be added at runtime, this is to avoid potential tracking via viewport changes +- Small codebase, right now we are well under 1 000 lines +- Does not use modal editing (from vi) as that was designed for editing, not browsing +- UTF-8 encoding by default + +Motivation from other clients <https://hacktivis.me/articles/www-client%20are%20broken> ## Repositories +### git - Main: <https://hacktivis.me/git/badwolf/>, <git://hacktivis.me/git/badwolf.git> - Mirror: <https://gitlab.com/lanodan/badWolf.git>, this one can also be used if you prefer tickets/PRs over emails -## Dependencies -- WebKitGTK+ -- GTK3+ +### release tarballs +- Main: <https://hacktivis.me/releases/> +- Mirror: <https://gitlab.com/lanodan/badWolf/tags> + +Files ending in `.sig` are OpenPGP signatures done with my [key](https://hacktivis.me/key.asc)(`DDC9 237C 14CF 6F4D D847 F6B3 90D9 3ACC FEFF 61AE`). + +## Manual Installation +Dependencies are: +- [WebKitGTK](https://webkitgtk.org/), only the latest stable will be fully supported +- C99+ Compiler (such as clang or gcc) +- POSIX make (works with GNU or BSD) + +Compilation is done with `make`, install with `make install`. ## Notes Most of the privacy/security stuff will be done with patches against WebKit as quite a lot isn’t into [WebKitSettings](https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/WebKitSettings.html) and with a generic WebKit extension that should be resuseable. |