I build web browsers for webmasters who want to give their users additional (or different) features than what is available in Internet Explorer. The advantage of offering a web browser over a toolbar, RSS, or newsletter is you have access to the visitor as long as they use your software. So, you can send information whenever they start the browser, whenever they are about to close it, various times of day, etc. You also can offer users secret content, expanded access, extra features, and updates as incentives to get them to download and use it. It takes about a week to complete a web browser (assuming basic features and nothing too unusual). I am offering a custom web browser for $199 since this is my first time offering it at Digital Point. Usually a web browser costs $2500, but will eat the cost this one time. I am also willing to take domains, websites, content, hosting, etc. in trade. Just send me a PM if you want a web browser for your website. For more info, click Big Bad Browser to get an idea of possibilities for your web browser.
lin or win? and it costs exponentially more cash to dev a web browser by the way, but someone has to bite. Nigel
This is a windows-based, trident, web browser. Internet Explorer uses trident, to give you an idea how Big Bad Browser renders web pages. You are right, creating a custom web browser from scractch, with trident, or Gecko, or webkit is probably going to cost 10s of thousands of dollars, assuming you find the expertise to do it. If you create your own engine AND interface, I do not want to guess at the time and cost. But, I'm willing to subsidize 1 web browser on DigitalPoint to see if there is any demand here. If not, I'll move on to better places.
I don't consider any of these the worst. It all depends on what you want to do. Gecko has its good and bad points. So does webkit. So does trident. Nothing is good in all cases, for all situations, for all users, at all times. Trident is best for customizing the interface without spending tens of thousands of dollars (or hundreds/thousands of hours).