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Browsers, sure, but I honestly wouldn't mind to only have one major browser engine, or batch of forks stemmed from one like blink/webkit. After all, we only has
by thrdbndndn 5y ago
Browsers, sure, but I honestly wouldn't mind to only have one major browser engine, or batch of forks stemmed from one like blink/webkit. After all, we only has one web standard.
Having been using Firefox and Chrome side by side for 10+ years, I don't think the difference (or preference) between the two worth the effort putting into making two (mostly) duplicate implementations of the same thing for such complex thing. And my experience in observing the development of Firefox is that they are already too short-handed to keep up.
- DeathArrow 5y agoSo we all should also drive the same car and eat the same food?
- thrdbndndn 5y agoYou can have dramatically different cars with the same engine. To most of users, even the power users, their choice of the browser isn't caused by the difference in engines. Also, I don't say "should", I say I don't mind.
- Miner49er 5y agoWouldn't having one implementation controlled by Google give them the final say in the standard though, and effectively all or most of the power over the standard? Seems like a dangerous road that we're heading down.
- thrdbndndn 5y agoGoogle is already controlling the web now, with the existence of gecko. They control it because Blink/Chromium is much more popular than other choices, not because there is only one choice. Keep in mind Blink engine is forked from WebKit (an Apple product) and Chromium is created from thin air. Yet it doesn't stop Google to have the dominant position they have today. My point is, Google controlling everything is bad, but having only one engine (be it chromium or something else) isn't what causes it.
- kvark 5y agoThat's not my experience in W3C. Having an implementation gives us a strong voice.