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> building a fully featured browser engine from > scratch that is "just" good enough to render 80% > of pages correctly is a herculean, almost impossibl
by JohnBooty 8y ago
> building a fully featured browser engine from
> scratch that is "just" good enough to render 80%
> of pages correctly is a herculean, almost impossible
> task in 2018.
Absolutely!
> I think we're already well off with two fully
> featured and completely open source browser engines.
Well, that's the problem. The death of Edge brings us one step closer to a browser monoculture.
Which is apparently something developers want, since apparently none of them were working in the industry the last time we had a monoculture.
- headmelted 8y agoThis is my point distilled exactly. It doesn't matter if HN uses Firefox. It doesn't matter if web developers like us the world over use Firefox. Ezra and Taylor just want to manage their personal brands and don't care about all that nerd stuff. We'll build for where the audience is, and they're not going to switch for any of the reasons in this thread. It works good enough as it is. Yes, Chrome is open source, but in marketing/critical mass terms this is no different than last time.