Rather fun read, I must say. It really seems like it makes sense that browsers really "need" the bloat; it has got to the point where it ends up being the most

Rather fun read, I must say. It really seems like it makes sense that browsers really "need" the bloat; it has got to the point where it ends up being the most useful and most used application on any OS, for a given section of the end-user base, anyway. At that point can we really call those features bloat? Maybe in 1996 you didn't need to play videos much, but a web browser without HTML 5 can't do what the majority would expect. What users expect from the internet has very much expanded. I actually was curious about some of the inner workings of this stuff and made a browser using WebKit once. https://gitlab.com/ibiscybernetics/sighte https://gitlab.com/ibiscybernetics/sighte All-in-all one of the more unusual side projects I played with.