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> it's impossible to make a modern one that supports all sites without those human resources. Then let's not - death to irregular HTML and let the era of lean
by liotier 4y ago
> it's impossible to make a modern one that supports all sites without those human resources.
Then let's not - death to irregular HTML and let the era of lean browsers begin !
Yes, I know, Martian Headsets (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/) - but considering how much of a contemporary web browser is about supporting irregular markup and other grandfathered hacks, deliberately scoping them out is an exciting approach to a possible non-RFC793 compliant future. Won't fly with mass market, but worth exploring by people who don't care about the mass market - and the marketing will come later, once someone with no money and a device to ship figures out how fast such browser can be with ridiculously low resources !
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- wpietri 4y agoFor sure. There's also a big question of what "support" means. If rendering is usable but not pixel-perfect, then maybe that's fine. Especially when what's being rendered is in categories like "visual fluff" and "needed for advertising".
- pipeline_peak 4y agoAs much as I love personal projects, if you want something to survive it needs industry support, that's how Linux and Python are still going. Who's going to support a browser compatible with stuff from 2011? There are companies like Ekioh that make niche solutions for embedded stuff, but there's nothing open source.