Re:The Web Is Dead, Long Live the Web
by feichtinger on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:57PM
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An interesting idea! I think that was one of the original goals of the VPRI project (http://vpri.org) — very high-level executable specs that encoded the meaning rather than worried about performance. IIRC, their 2D graphics library was about 45 LOC (https://raw.github.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf)
Re:The Web Is Dead, Long Live the Web
by feichtinger on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:30PM
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The question still remains: what should the standard look like? And I think right now there’a not enough agreement on what the Web should be to make standardisation effective.
the trouble developers have to support many browsers is because of the implementation variations.
a recent issue I had on Edge is that if the border color is #FFFFFFFF, it is rendered as black, but on other browsers, this is white.
What if the standard itself is defined as a common source code, and not owned by any company?
the standard implementation could be a dumb one without any hardware acceleration. It only needs to define the correct behavior. Any customized implementation has to conform to it.