Sputnik - internet browser

[marcik]

Aweb is for example already open source and the task of adding modern features to this browser would be significantly less than porting firefox + depedencies.

No, it won't be. You'd need to rewritte whole AWeb engine from scratch to make it CSS, DOM, etc, aware.

[marcik]

Can you tell a bit more about its features compared to a modern navigator like Firefox?

When it comes to rendering engine capabilities it's more or less at the same level as Firefox (there are some differences but they are rather minor. FF supports more 'odds' standards and is a bit more tollerant for a broken pages, while Sputnik engine (WebCore) has more complete CSS implementation. Both or them can be called a modern engines). When it comes to user-friendlines of browsers itself... Well, Sputnik don't have any at the moment ;-)

[marcik]

Wouldn't it be better to try and make all 'plugins' datatypes instead so they can be used anywhere? It's very doable.

Making a Flash-datatype isn't the smartest idea.

About a second post:

Colani1200 already posted a link to main homepage, with some screenshots, but you can also watch a movie from a Sputnik presentation in Germany last week - http://meeting2006.morphosi.net/JakubKassim-Sputnik2.mov

[marcik]

if he has somehow built it all together he'd have to release the source to the whole thing to comply with the LGPL.

LGPL states otherwise. Static linking with LGPL code doesn't mean that whole sources must be published.