Re:Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust
by MaxBarraclough on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:53PM
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> Such a simpler web spec would be relatively fast moving, not focused on backwards compatibility, but instead on simplicity of implementation.
To mirror userbinator's comment: why would it be necessary for the standard to be fast-moving, if the intention is to offer a radically simplified subset of the web stack?
If the aim is to make it much easier to implement a browser, stability should be a top priority.
I'm reminded of a recent HN discussion on whether it makes more sense to define a minimal subset of HTML, or to use an entirely different language, like Gopher and Gemini. [0] I see several others in the discussion here have already mentioned these two.
To mirror userbinator's comment: why would it be necessary for the standard to be fast-moving, if the intention is to offer a radically simplified subset of the web stack?
If the aim is to make it much easier to implement a browser, stability should be a top priority.
I'm reminded of a recent HN discussion on whether it makes more sense to define a minimal subset of HTML, or to use an entirely different language, like Gopher and Gemini. [0] I see several others in the discussion here have already mentioned these two.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165029