Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser
by azakai on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @03:04PM
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Cool, that sounds interesting. I certainly think it's worth experimenting with stuff like that in parallel to projects like Servo which optimize current standards, long-term it's hard to tell which will be better.
Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser
by iSnow on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:06AM
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You won't displace entrenched technology with an entirely different model, no matter how good. Sorry, this is just a pipe dream.
The real competition for the web are the walled gardens of iOS and Android App development.
Re:Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser
by whyme on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:30AM
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If iOS or android app development succeed, then you would be proving yourself wrong as they would be displacing the entrenched technology. It's that, or they are not real competition.
I have no pipe dreams. Displacing the aforementioned technologies with something better is inevitable. I just gave an example of how easy better ideas are to be found.
Create an entirely different model. One that acts as a hybrid between a full blown inefficient co-ordinate system and, plausibly, a more efficient box model.
We could start by modelling 'movement' which equates to objects having 1. A reference point, 2. A magnitude and 3. A direction.
It would be beneficial to do this in such a way that one could apply functions to said model achieving a reactive design that gives you a sense of a full blown co-ordinate system while achieving simpler mechanisms for ease in development and efficiency.
I know that's pretty high level stuff, but in my mind I can see a fairly clear path to achieve a significant improvement.