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It means we can’t end up in an IE6 scenario, where the caretaking company loses interest in developing the browser, and we are all stuck using old technology fo
by true_religion 7y ago
It means we can’t end up in an IE6 scenario, where the caretaking company loses interest in developing the browser, and we are all stuck using old technology forever.
Someone can simply fork it, with all its idiosyncrasies, then build new versions with new features.
Do you want a browser that natively supports a language other than JavaScript? Chromium is a great starting point.
- palashkaria 7y agoWell, I think the argument was more about Webkit, then Chrome itself. Even flow here does not use a JS engine written from scratch - they use SpiderMonkey. PS: As a webkit-based Chrome alternative, Brave browser does really well.
- ksec 7y agoInteresting they choose Spidermonkey over Webkit's JS Engine . I could sort of understand not choosing v8 which is now quite bloated as it is also optimising for lots of other things, but Spidermonkey?