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Forgive my ignorance, but why is maintaining a browser so hard? HTML and CSS are decades old by now. Javascript is handled through a separate engine. Is the pr
by queuebert 5y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but why is maintaining a browser so hard? HTML and CSS are decades old by now. Javascript is handled through a separate engine.
Is the problem that the standards keep evolving? Or are the standards just too difficult to perfectly support? What is going on?
- soundnote 5y agoA web browser is essentially a small OS. The body of web standards is way bigger than it used to, and implementing things like security a much bigger deal than they were back then. Before, you could kinda say get this, get that, ok draw what they tell you, fine. Now you have to worry about shit like response times to your queries being used as an attack vector.