Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by kibwen on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:24AM (#8953910)

  > Given the existence of standards, there's not a lot of 
  > room for innovative behavior.

This is incorrect. Servo, with its goal of being fanatically concurrent, is forging new ground in discovering exactly where the HTML specs both admit concurrency and where they unintentionally demand serial behavior. Browsers of its ilk, regardless of adoption, will be instrumental in informing future standards such that they are not accidentally hostile to concurrency and parallelism, thereby clearing the way for widely-adopted engines to implement such optimizations at their leisure.

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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by ewzimm on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:13PM (#8955945)

> unless they're in one of the major browsers

Servo is a research project for a future version of Firefox. That's the definition of a major browser. No web developers want a new browser with incompatible features to test or build against, but Mozilla/Google/Microsoft experimenting for future versions is expected.

The original point is that independent browsers using established libraries and adding new UI concepts is great for users and doesn't make extra work for web developers. I'm looking forward to what they make of it!

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