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Re:Ladybird browser spreads its wings by alwillis on Friday June 21, 2024 @11:15AM (#40750502)
I don't think casual observers understand how many new CSS features have been added to the web platform over the last few years.

468 new features have been added since 2018; 148 have been added in the past 18 months alone [1].

I applaud the effort but unless something fundamentally changes in their approach, I don't see how they can catch up.

Sure, you don't need every single spec, but even the core ones like Flexbox, Grid are large and complicated and are constantly being tweaked.

[1]: https://codepen.io/fimion/pen/WNmwJWJ

Re:Ladybird browser spreads its wings by 1oooqooq on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:49PM (#40751361)
all of them were written in a way that mostly affect the api, not the underlying implementation models tho.

it's still 500 new things to test and actually implement. but not as bad as the original 1 to 2 change.

html5 was the forever missed opportunity to do things right. but keeping the browser-side effort low was always fought for on the w3 committe.