All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by hollerith on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:48AM (#43856997)

Yeah, I'm not even a web dev, but even I can see that Google wants to make the web stack ever more complicated and is has been good at getting what it wants.

I always thought they do that to make it more expensive for anyone to compete with them. E.g., want to introduce a new operating systems for phones? No one will use it unless it has a web browser. So you have to hire a thousand expensive developers to create and maintain the browser (or maybe somehow induce Mozilla to port Firefox to it, which would probably also be expensive).

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by acka on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:16AM (#43857281)

Sounds very similar to the practice of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by troupo on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:06AM (#43857183)

They also do it depending on who wins internal turf wars. When Chrome/ChromeOS wins, we get a hundred hardware APIs.

When ads win (they always win) we get FLOC and other bullcrap.

etc.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by bigyabai on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:04PM (#43862724)

I don't think there would be demand for extraneous web APIs if the native ones were a good enough replacement. Kinda feels like the fault of OEMs for driving people to the web for good content.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by immibis on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:00PM (#43873514)

All web APIs are built on the corresponding native APIs - there's no secret bypass mechanism.

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