> Have you looked at what speed Chrome devs are implementing new APIs? It's insane. And great. It's not great. It is bad, really. It means no one that hasn't d

> Have you looked at what speed Chrome devs are implementing new APIs? It's insane. And great. It's not great. It is bad, really. It means no one that hasn't dozen millions of dollars can implement or even just maintain a viable browser that can keep up. And since we expect browsers to be free, that means… "complicated" business models cough mostly¹ relying on ads and tracking cough to maintain the Web. I which it wasn't this way really. There was a time when it was possible for a few people to implement a quite good browser engine in their free time. KHTML. So good, in fact, that it was chosen as the basis of WebKit (and therefore Blink). This does not seem possible anymore. 1. There's Apple maintaining a browser engine without relying on ads, but their business model is also questionable.