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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by IshKebab on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:21AM (#32810735)
Yeah the argument is just about the definition of "browser". Something that can pass Acid3 and render simple sites fine, or even complex specific sites? Totally doable.

Something that will work reliably on every site and support the gazillions of APIs that Chrome provides? Hell no. Even Microsoft threw in the towel on that. Mozilla barely manages it.

You can make a browser that people can use if they really really want to make a point of using your browser. You can't make one that the average person would choose.

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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by zzo38computer on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:45PM (#32817440)
What we need isn't to make one "that the average person would choose", since they already have that.

What we do need is to make one that you may choose if you want to be able to fully control the system (with fine customization, and interaction with other programs including native codes in C), and is designed for advanced users who have read all of the documents, rather than trying to hide things from the user or believe they know better than what the end user specified, and also it must be one that avoids all of the bad stuff that Google put in.

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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by IshKebab on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:02AM (#32821721)
None of that stuff is about the browser engine. If you want all that you'd just use an existing engine, which is what people do.
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