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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by acqq on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:16PM (#10130307)
> Web developers could use tools like cssnext to automatically add all the goop without ever being distracted by it

Can't they do that now? What exactly would that proposal bring new?

> Less code needs to be reviewed, tested and maintained.

Now there's four, then would be five different browsers. Why does this reduce anybody's work?

> this is speculation not based on facts, but experience with software development in general.

I'd say that experience you refer to doesn't include the one described in:

https://xkcd.com/927/

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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by Argorak on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:34PM (#10130443)
> I'd say that experience you refer to doesn't include the one described in:

> https://xkcd.com/927/

In any case, this is a most innovation-unfriendly reference that is all too common.

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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by acqq on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:39PM (#10130485)
Independently of the generality of your remark, here we have the very specific case of somebody not even knowing how the Servo is implemented or developed suggesting that the Servo developers should do how he says, not how they do, without giving any real proof of benefit to anybody.
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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by slasaus on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:56PM (#10130575)
> here we have the very specific case of somebody not even knowing how the Servo is implemented or developed suggesting that the Servo developers should do how he says, not how they do, without giving any real proof of benefit to anybody.

OP here.

Totally right, because I didn't know how Servo is implemented, I've asked. Sorry for mixing in some emotion and hope about which answer I would get. I respect any developer doing any work and do realize it's all too easy to spread opinion without hacking on some solution.

Maybe as a non-contributor I should not have ventilated my opinion.

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