Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
by criddell on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @06:33AM
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Relying on open standards is risky. It seems to me the de facto standard is whatever Chrome or Blink does.
Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
by ykonstant on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @06:42AM
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That's the unique value proposition of Ladybird. It uses the open standards as the jumping point, investigates and de facto documents the divergence of modern browsers from them. It is a precious and important work.
Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
by criddell on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @07:19AM
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How is knowing where the published standards diverge from de facto standards precious and important work? You say that's where the value is, but the subset of people and organizations who would pay for that (if it's valuable, people will pay, right?) has to be pretty small.
Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
by ykonstant on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @07:39AM
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>(if it's valuable, people will pay, right?)
No? There are tons of valuable contributions, pure and applied, that "people" (markets) do not pay for at all, or pay pittance relative to their usefulness.
Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
by paddim8 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:25AM
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It makes it much easier to build new engines in the future. Even if only a few people are interested in this knowledge, they can make a big impact with the software they write.
By building a new engine, we can increase ecosystem diversity and put all these open standards to the test. We regularly find, report, and sometimes even fix bugs in the various web standards - stuff we find just by being the first to try and implement everything from scratch in a long time!
We also believe it’s good for the world to have more engines that aren’t directly or indirectly funded primarily by the advertising industry.