@breadsmasher, difficult to understand what means auditable? How will you modify a source with unknown content?
Try it with Chrome, EDGE or Opera. Not the same, there is nothing auditable or modificable, at least if you don’t use reverse engineering, which in Vivaldi isn’t needed. The UI source is the only proprietary script but not hidden, it’s simply a license thing.
If it go OpenSource, in the next versión Chrome and Edge will use it and kill with this all other Browser in the market.
Talking generally. You can build a system which accepts new source code and styles and applies them.
Think about modding games for example. They are created without access to source code. The developers provide the ability to add new functionality to the system without providing the source code.
Heres the source code for Chromium upon which Chrome is built
@breadsmasher, difficult to understand what means auditable? How will you modify a source with unknown content?
Try it with Chrome, EDGE or Opera. Not the same, there is nothing auditable or modificable, at least if you don’t use reverse engineering, which in Vivaldi isn’t needed. The UI source is the only proprietary script but not hidden, it’s simply a license thing.
If it go OpenSource, in the next versión Chrome and Edge will use it and kill with this all other Browser in the market.
Talking generally. You can build a system which accepts new source code and styles and applies them.
Think about modding games for example. They are created without access to source code. The developers provide the ability to add new functionality to the system without providing the source code.
Heres the source code for Chromium upon which Chrome is built
https://github.com/chromium/chromium
You can modify chrome, edge, firefox. Plenty of themes and extensions exist. Just because its not a simple css file doesn’t mean it can’t be changed.