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*Kind of. More power to them, but modern browsers are one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces of software in the world, probably right next to an OS.

*Kind of. More power to them, but modern browsers are one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces of software in the world, probably right next to an OS. WebKit and Chromium respectively have had billions of dollars and decades of development poured into them. The current duopoly state of the market reflects that fact, unfortunately.

Decabytes 4y ago
I believe Andreas actually worked on WebKit for awhile so he is well aware of how challenging implementing a browser is
hbn 4y ago
From the FAQ [1] > Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff. > Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser. [1] https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/#faq https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
- lzazz 4y ago
  Sure you can start a new browser engine, but this one is nowhere near usable, and it will probably never be.
  - stephen_g 4y ago
    Well I'm glad they're trying and not listening to the defeatists!
Y_Y 4y ago
Of course WebKit and Blink (Chromium) are both just shitty descendants of the beautiful (and foss) KHTML from Conqueror.
- djbusby 4y ago
  *Konqueror https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/konqueror/ https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/konqueror/
  - Y_Y 4y ago
    Thanks. You can blame autocorrect for that one. No doubt more of Google's anticompetitive behaviour using Android keyboards to surpress rival browsers.
anderspitman 4y ago
Firefox on Linux doesn't even run a decent number of sites well for me, I assume because they're primarily tested on Chrome. And Chromium often chokes on Google's own voice.google.com web app. Ladybird doesn't have to be perfect to be useful or interesting.