Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by akrymski on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:43PM
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Yes and no - our lives would be much easier if we could just assume that every user runs a WebKit fork. From testing to development, it would be enable devs to push apps to the limit without testing across multiple platforms. And I'm sure adding those vendor-specific extensions to a WebKit fork is also do-able. Since WebKit is open-source, I'd prefer to see companies put in more effort in enhancing its performance instead of developing new proprietary rendering engines (unless they are 10x better of course).
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Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by masklinn on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:45PM
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> Yes and no - our lives would be much easier if we could just assume that every user runs a WebKit fork.
Just as our life "was easier" when we could just assumer every user ran MSIE.
It was easier for a short while, then the rot set in. I'm not interested in having Google control the web in the same way, that's a road we've taken, we know where it leads and it's a terrible place.