Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by xp84 on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:44PM (#38043681)

This is interesting. Chrome is the new i.e. as i.e. was in 2002, namely, most people regarded it as “the only browser any normal person would ever use.”

Safari is the new i.e. in the sense that i.e. was in the late 2000s/early 2010s, meaning it’s the browser that we would like to ignore due to how weird it is compared to the browser we normally target. And how stubborn the vendor is in neither acting like the majority browser, nor giving up and adopting a different engine (or in the case of iOS, even allowing a different engine to run).

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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by dirtyhippiefree on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:57PM (#38044537)

I see: in the case of iOS, even allowing a different engine to run

I’m hearing: iOS is •considerably more secure• like Blackberry was.

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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by xp84 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:39PM (#38061899)

I’m not hearing that. Safari has its share of CVEs, including many of the jailbreak methods of the past, meaning one click to root the device. Apple isn’t any better at software than any other html engine vendor. And by having a monoculture on iOS, every time there’s a WebKit bug 100% of iOS users are guaranteed exploitable. There’s zero net security benefit to banning Gecko and Chromium (and any upstart innovators).

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