Re:Firefox 95 Released
by mananaysiempre on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:36AM
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> this is a reference to the browser that's actually called NetSurf
Yes, sorry, I meant http://www.netsurf-browser.org/. (I knew I should look up and put in the link, but it was late... Turns out I even misremembered the name.)
> what the statement that "WebKit hardly qualifies as independent from an ecosystem health standpoint, though" means.
That the Blink layout engine is a fork of the WebKit codebase, so if the issue is keeping the standard healthy by ensuring multiple people can implement it independently, having WebKit and Blink be the only implementations is less than ideal, even if not a complete failure.
Yes, sorry, I meant http://www.netsurf-browser.org/. (I knew I should look up and put in the link, but it was late... Turns out I even misremembered the name.)
> what the statement that "WebKit hardly qualifies as independent from an ecosystem health standpoint, though" means.
That the Blink layout engine is a fork of the WebKit codebase, so if the issue is keeping the standard healthy by ensuring multiple people can implement it independently, having WebKit and Blink be the only implementations is less than ideal, even if not a complete failure.