Comment by stefan987654123

stefan987654123 Sep 11, 2014 parent

We were limited to 36 hours for the hackathon we made this at. It is an actual browser. We will continue developing it to make it fully functional.

ggchappell Sep 11, 2014

Well, I'm sure this was a nice achievement, and no offense intended, but that doesn't make sense. You were limited to 36 hours, and therefore, instead of simply writing a driver, you wrote a driver and and entire web browser sitting on top of it?

julian37 Sep 11, 2014

Surely they've reused a browser component rather than writing one from scratch. And they do more on the server than just pipe the full HTTP responses back, they strip CSS, images, JS etc. and minify the HTML. I think it's pretty cool!

lelandbatey Sep 11, 2014

Probably just the familiarity with the tools. They knew how to write an Android app, but not a driver.

ggchappell Sep 12, 2014

Yes, that makes sense.

But we might take it as a negative comment on the modularity or ease of configurability of the environment supported by Android (or, more generally, by Linux).

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