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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by dmitriid on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:21AM (#28016110)
> Browsers come and go.

Here's what one of the main authors of KHTML has to say about this: https://twitter.com/LarsKnoll/status/1421121639845187585

20 years ago you needed a fraction of what is in a modern browser today. And it's getting worse. Chrome ships 40 to 70 new Web APIs every 40 days or so: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence

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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by mrweasel on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:27AM (#28016660)
It’s somewhat terrifying that a single person or a small team can develop an operating system, with a GUI, but won’t be able to create a modern web browser to run on the same OS.
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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by dmitriid on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:38AM (#28017205)
The Web seems to be in an unenviable position of needing both:

- an insurmountable amount of work for backwards compatibility, and

- an insurmountable amount of work to keep up with the torrent of new features added to it

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