Re:Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
by Brakenshire on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:26PM
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The obvious target is apps, develop a simplified layout/styling model for properties which can be scoped within a component, and build a layout engine which can calculate the layout within those components independently, and then you could radically improve the performance of web UI.
It was never terribly popular, because who wants to make two sites? Really, that plauges all such plans; everyone wants to build the fanciest, most "modern" site possible, and not do it again for a more constrained version. That's why few sites offer a JS-less version. Only AMP has made some headway, with the weight of the Google hegemon behind it.