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It's part of the culture of making everything web terribly complicated, which has resulted in the death of all but three web browsers. It's now practically imp
by m_eiman 6y ago
It's part of the culture of making everything web terribly complicated, which has resulted in the death of all but three web browsers.
It's now practically impossible to write a new web browser from scratch, unless you're a mega corp with endless resources and a grudge against Google, and they're still adding more complexity every day.
- dewey 6y agoThe web started out as a very optimistic project with no security and a lot based on trust. As it evolved a lot of security had to be bolted on which now makes it a bit more complicated than in the early days. But what's the alternative? Of course a perfect protocol where nothing needs to be added later would be great, but that's not very realistic.
- m_eiman 6y agoThe problem isn't just HTTPS, it's the ever-expanding array of various APIs and technologies that "must" be implemented to be a "real" or "complete" browser. Even Firefox, that's been around for a long time and has a fairly large mind share, is at best an afterthought in many web projects. The amount of APIs that need to be implemented to be considered even a basic web browser is so huge that it's not an approachable project for just about any organization, and as an individual it's just not possible.
- josephcsible 6y agoSupporting TLS is a cakewalk compared to handling modern HTML/JS/etc. This has nothing to do with the browser monoculture.