Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by wpietri on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:29AM
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For sure. There's also a big question of what "support" means.
If rendering is usable but not pixel-perfect, then maybe that's fine. Especially when what's being rendered is in categories like "visual fluff" and "needed for advertising".
Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
by pipeline_peak on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:29PM
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As much as I love personal projects, if you want something to survive it needs industry support, that's how Linux and Python are still going.
Who's going to support a browser compatible with stuff from 2011? There are companies like Ekioh that make niche solutions for embedded stuff, but there's nothing open source.
Then let's not - death to irregular HTML and let the era of lean browsers begin !
Yes, I know, Martian Headsets (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/) - but considering how much of a contemporary web browser is about supporting irregular markup and other grandfathered hacks, deliberately scoping them out is an exciting approach to a possible non-RFC793 compliant future. Won't fly with mass market, but worth exploring by people who don't care about the mass market - and the marketing will come later, once someone with no money and a device to ship figures out how fast such browser can be with ridiculously low resources !