Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
by vbezhenar on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:39PM
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Just compile Firefox or Chromium to Wasm and provide necessary adapters.
Well, I'm joking, of course, it's not that simple. But it should be possible in the end.
Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
by simion314 on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:12AM
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The point was to reimplement a browser. Imagine you want to make an ebook reader,this device needs not to eat too much batteries so you want to implement a basic css and html renderer not to re-skin Chrome.
Some ebook publishing platforms will perform checks and reject your epub(mobi or similar format) if is not respecting some strict rules, this makes it a pain if you have random html that works on web but you want to package it as epub because now you need to find all the bugs(or similar stupid DOM elements) and fix them as best you can.
There was also an article earlier this month or previous month from a Firefox developer about font/text rendering, in case you missed it rendering text in a way that works with all writing system is super hard.