Yes you read right, we definately need a good mobile web browser for developers because there isn't any. You might say that there is a good mobile browser, Google Chrome.
Google Chrome does give us access to new css and js asap but I want different things and Chrome does not provide those features.
What features do I want ?
The features I want are present in all browser but only for desktops not for mobiles.
Those are
- developer mode
- inspect element
- console
What feature does mobile browsers offer ?
None of the above
Some mobiles browser have few special features that could be helpfull for developers but they does not provide any of the above features.
What I am thinking to do
You might guessed it. I want to create a new open source browser for mobiles.
Which will at least provides 1 specific feature of inspecting elements (HTML & CSS).
After that adding console support and other features to it (if possible)
What's the problem
This project have few probloms. First of them is myself.
I don't know how can I make a web browser. My first thought was creating a website which will take input of url from the user then fetch it and set it to innerHTML of a div element.
something like this
<body>
<header>
<form>
<input type="text" placeholder="enter url" name="browserInputBar" /><input
type="submit"
value="search"
/>
</form>
</header>
<main><div id="display"></div></main>
<script type="module">
const form = document.querySelector("form");
async function fetchData(query) {
const res = await fetch("https://" + query);
const data = await res.body(); // I was checking this
/* I don't know what to use for HTML response .text, .json, .blob, .body or anything else*/
return data;
}
form.addEventListener("submit", (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
const query = form.browserInputBar.value;
const data = fetchData(query);
document.querySelector("#display").innerHTML = data;
});
</script>
</body>
But this is not working. I am getting CORS error.
I want your help to create the best browser for developers
Here is the link to GitHub repo developer-browser
My aim
My aim is to create the best mobile web browser for mobile devices
Hey! Good take. I’d try making it an extension for Chrome and finding a way to use it in mobile. It appears that Chromium-based browser, like Kiwi Browser or Yandex, allow such extensions. Or making your own chromium based browser.