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# Frequently Asked Questions about Ladybird
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## What does 'Independent' mean, if you're including third party dependencies?
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Independent means:
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- We implement the web platform standards ourselves
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- We don't take money from anyone with strings attached
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## Windows support when?
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There are very few Windows developers contributing to the project. As such, maintaining a native Windows port would be
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a lot of effort that distracts from building out the web platform standards in a reasonable amount of time.
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After we have a solid foundation, we may consider a Windows port, but it's not a priority. In the meantime, Windows
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developers can use other tools such as WSL2 to work on Ladybird.
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## Will Ladybird support `$THING`?
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Eventually, probably, if there's a Web Spec for it!
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## When will you implement `$THING`?
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Maybe someday. Maybe never. If you want to see something happen, you can do it yourself!
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## Well, how do I run this thing then?
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Simple, my friend! Just refer to the [build instructions](BuildInstructionsLadybird.md).
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## I did a `git pull` and now the build is broken! What do I do?
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If it builds on CI, it should build for you too. You may need to rebuild the toolchain. If that doesn't help, try it with a clean repo.
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If you can't figure out what to do, ask in the `#build-problems` channel on Discord.
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## Where did Ladybird come from?
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For full details, see the [Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project](https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project) announcement from 12 September 2022.
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Here’s a very short summary: Work on what eventually became Ladybird started on 15 June 2019, as _LibHTML_ — the beginnings of an HTML viewer for [SerenityOS](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity) — with a commit titled [“LibHTML: Start working on a simple HTML library”](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a67e8238389), and with this commit description:
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> _I'd like to have rich text, and we might as well use HTML for that. :^)_
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LibHTML eventually became [LibWeb](https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb) — which in turn eventually grew into being the core part of the browser engine and browser to which, on 4 July 2022, [the name _Ladybird_ was given](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X38MTKHt3_I&t=29s).
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