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For anyone thinking "we can't possibly create a new production-ready browser engine", note that all major browsers except Firefox descended from one such projec
by senko 5y ago
For anyone thinking "we can't possibly create a new production-ready browser engine", note that all major browsers except Firefox descended from one such project - KHTML.
"But you can't actually do it unless you're a $1T company" crowd forgets (or wasn't around to see) how dominant IE was, and how huge a project Mozilla was even back in the day.
- cyber_kinetist 5y agoYou still have to consider how much new stuff got added into the overall Web (HTML+CSS+JS) spec since the old KHTML days though.