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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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