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Why aren't browsers feature-complete? I know someone has to justify employing those people, but honestly, where is the browser that just works by default for t
by antisthenes 6y ago
Why aren't browsers feature-complete?
I know someone has to justify employing those people, but honestly, where is the browser that just works by default for the 99.9% of simple use cases and isn't a resource hog?
We don't need a separate sandboxed OS eating 4GB of RAM just to display 5KB of text (and 2MB of javascript). Maybe focus on that, if any Googlers are reading.
- kibwen 6y ago> Why aren't browsers feature-complete? Because other browsers keep adding features, and then web sites start using those features. Any browser that stops adding features eventually finds itself unable to display certain sites, and loses users to browsers that can display those sites. Which is to say (channeling Zawinski's Law), any browser that fails to add features will eventually be replaced by a browser that does.
- jakub_g 6y agoGoogle's strategical view is to make web browser as capable as the native apps on mobile (mostly to counterbalance the iOS native apps' walled garden). It's called Project Fugu. I don't expect them to stop shipping any time soon. (Meanwhile Firefox's agenda is to push web forward but keep the balance; and Apple's agenda is to keep browser fast with minimal bloat, and lately privacy as an anti-Google selling point; and evolve the browser in other aspects just to not become the next IE and avoid lawsuits for blocking other rendering engines on iOS). Up to you to choose your preferred one.