Multiengine Browser Lunascape

Network administrators - Web developers still use multiple browsers on their computers to facilitate testing, but a relatively new Japanese browser is still called Lunascape. integrates all three of the most important machines in it. According to the company's website, Lunascape was first released in December last year, with its latest release released last June .

Lunascape's main feature is the ability to switch between engines for real-time rendering. The three most important rendering engines are Gecko (Mozilla Firefox), Webkit (Safari, Konqueror, Google Chrome, other names) and Trident (Microsoft Internet Explorer). This disappoints many developers, because these browsers often render the same code in different ways.

Switching between browser rendering engines is not a new technique, IE Tab, a Firefox extension in providing similar functionality, has been used for years. Lunascape is still using it because of adding Webkit support to the mix. To test this test, we installed the 5.0.0 alpha3 release of Lunascape.

In the process of using it shows that transition between engines is a completely flexible process. We used WebFX to test this transitional issue, which is a site with many browser scenarios and can be used as demonstration tools for testing DHTML features. My test took a look at different scenarios with three browser render engines, which showed that Lunascape did this quite well.

In this version, we found that tabbed browsing in Lunascape is quite lonely, but that is not so bad for a new alpha project. The developers' point of view is that Lunascape's ability to switch between rendering engines is quite fast and quite useful, although this alpha release does not really provide real use. important export.

Lunascape has an interesting point as a hybrid browser, but its usability is not really good in the current alpha version. Among them, Lunascape does not respond to keyboard shortcuts like other browsers. For example, when CTRL + T opens a new tab in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, it does not allow you to do anything in Lunascape. Middle-clicking on a link opens that link in a new tab for most browsers, like Lunascape ignores this action.

However Lunascape also has a small RSS ticker that can fetch and display RSS content. But on the other hand, this ticker shares the screen space with the bar tab. If there are several tabs open, there is very little space left for the ticker, which makes this feature almost useless. Lunascape will pop up a notification whenever the RSS content is updated.

Another area that can be improved in Lunascape is its start page. This page has been built similar to the Firefox start page, but we can see the potential problem here. With the popularity of a lot of fake sites, malicious code, many people can prevent sites intentionally designed like good-to-use destinations, even in good applications. An improvement in design for this start page will probably make this site's security much better.

Lunascape shows an interesting feeling, it has a very useful potential when it does a lot of work on it. At the moment, however, there is only one problem with Windows about Trident's source code. In contrast, Gecko and Webkit are open source components and allow for easy exploitation.

You can download the Lunascape browser here.