It's great that this Browser is now independently developed from Serenity OS. But I'm not a huge fan of the QT dependency. You might as well use Qt WebEngine Widgets at this point.
It doesn't look too hard to remove that dependency, but then you'd have to write your own cross-platform GUI software, which might be out of scope. Might be a fun exercise though.
Why does it have to be cross platform? At this point Ladybug does not compile on Windows anyways. Also the target audience is probably mostly using Linux.
Well, the goal from the article is obviously to make it cross-platform, it's even in the title ;). To achieve that they just wrapped it in Qt. To replace that you'd have to achieve parity for the (admittedly smallish) subset of Qt that is being used. Starting with Linux for that would be a good start, but I'd assume the eventual goal would be to expand to other platforms as well.
Yep. Not sure what Qt is at now, technically. But that's because when you go download it you have to click through 5 screens that threaten you that you shouldn't use the LGPL version and pay instead. I don't like being threatened so I don't check out Qt.
To the point that it's banned at my job because we're too small to have lawyers on retainer to protect us if we use the LGPL version and do too few GUI jobs to justify the licensing model for the commercial version...
If your framework of choice can implement a network request manager, a timer, and has an event loop, it's quite trivial to make it run within that framework, especially after the recent changes done by Andreas in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lXroxngYo
