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How many other companies with the capital to fund such development have a need for a new browser engine and would be willing to fund a team of engineers to work
by winter_squirrel 6y ago
How many other companies with the capital to fund such development have a need for a new browser engine and would be willing to fund a team of engineers to work on such an engine vs just using chromium?
- jeswin 6y agoSamsung, LG, many Chinese TV and mobile phone manufacturers etc. Samsung was a contributor to the Servo project, but I'm not sure to what extent they were helping.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoLG holds the remainder of the Palm WebOS assets, and has been doing decent things with them. So there's at least partially a history of them doing this kind of thing. Maybe there's a slight chance they might have an interest.
- rbanffy 6y agoWebOS used WebKit last time I checked.
- mrec 6y agoMicrosoft might have done. Picking Chromium as the basis for their new Edge a couple of years ago, instead of Mozilla/Servo, was a disappointment at the time and I suspect will look even worse in future retrospectives. MS also seem to have a lot more interest in Rust than Google do.
- TylerE 6y agoYes, picking something that was useable 3 years ago to build a product released 2 years ago instead of an alternative that isn't close to being done NOW was surely a massive strategic miscalculation.
- mrec 6y agoBy "Mozilla/Servo" I meant "the Mozilla Firefox codebase along with Servo as its research testbed", not just Servo itself (which AFAIK was never intended to be a generally-shippable browser). Could have been clearer, yes.