Miki

A rudimentary web browser built in Go with the Fyne GUI framework. Based on exercises from https://browser.engineering.

Features

• Supported URL Schemes: http, https, file, data, view-source. about:blank is used as fallback. http is default.
  • file reads local files, data reads text content embedded directly into the url, view-source displays the raw HTML code sent by the server.
• Redirect handling: Upto 5 redirects for 3xx codes.
• Error handling: 4xx and 5xx codes are handled with user feedback.
• Lexer: Custom lexer for tokenizing server response. Tokenization is done on the tags (no support for classes or ids).
• Basic HTML styling: <b>, <strong>, <i>, <pre>, <code>, <em>, <h1>, <a> tags are rendered with styling.
• Image rendering: Very basic, sizing not implemented yet.
• Browsing history: Stored as history.json in the program/application directory.
• Theming: Light, dark, custom.

Installation and Usage

Prerequisites

• Go required (install)
• Fyne also requires a C compiler for development. The compiler choice will vary depending upon the operating system. For more details refer to Fyne docs

Install

• git clone https://github.com/4rnv/Miki.git
• cd Miki
• go run cmd/miki/main.go

Alternatively, you can build a binary using the go build command.

• go build -ldflags="-H=windowsgui" -o bin/miki.exe ./cmd/miki (Windows)
• go build -o bin/miki ./cmd/miki (MacOS and Linux)

Future work

• Hyperlinks should take you to that page
• Ctrl+O to open local files (.txt at least)
• Support for compressed content
• Caching and reusing connections
• Javascript support