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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by trustno2 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:47PM (#40859858)
The talk about correctness gets me thinking.

If there is a difference between how specs define something, and how browsers behave (and website expect them to behave), will you choose technical correctness or websites actually functioning?

Technically this has been the big problem of HTML5 vs XHTML, and "technical correctness" lost to actual usability.

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by the_duke on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @04:00PM (#40859940)
Nowadays the spec mostly is "whatever Chrome does".

Firefox has often been forced to just conform to Chrome behaviour, despite differing specs, or because the spec was rejected/not agreed upon.

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by Ygg2 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @06:30PM (#40861064)
We're back to good ol' days of "Internet Explorer is the spec". It's just made by Google.
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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by Shugyousha on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:31AM (#40865327)
> We're back to good ol' days of "Internet Explorer is the spec". It's just made by Google.

and the code (at least a large part of it in the form of Chromium) is Open Source. I don't think it's as bleak as people make it out to be.

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Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser by trustno2 on Thursday July 04, 2024 @10:59AM (#40875471)
Chromium is basically everything important anyway; Chrome is some sprinkle on top (I think some DRM stuff?)
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