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Re:The Era of the Trident Engine by reilly3000 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:06PM (#22150331)
Much of the complexity isn’t about HTML rendering, but instead about security and device optimizations.
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Re:The Era of the Trident Engine by dredmorbius on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:51PM (#22155728)
Examples?

Or perhaps more useful: domains / classes of such issues?

I suspect a lot is:

- XHR

- JS generally

- Cookies

A heatmap of problem areas might be interesting.

Update: that's sort of here:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabilities-by-types.php

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Re:The Era of the Trident Engine by reilly3000 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:27AM (#22167187)
I think you hit on the big ones, but also issues around file system access, secure+performant+efficient use of memory across a lot of devices, and complying with an ever-changing landscape of external standards.

Great link!

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