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I'm willing to concede backwards compat, but how is browser tech "green field" when we haven't seen new browsers developed from scratch for well over a decade (

I'm willing to concede backwards compat, but how is browser tech "green field" when we haven't seen new browsers developed from scratch for well over a decade (^1) and have even lost two long-standing browser codebases (MS, Opera) during that time period? ^1 with laudable exceptions that haven't reached any reportable status/alignment with specs yet after years of work however, and possibly never will as browser tech scope expands every day like the frontier of the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light

chatmasta 4y ago
I think I might be misremembering the term. It's not "greenfield," but "green" something, and is used to refer to browsers updating relatively simultaneously, which only began in the past few years. EDIT: I love ChatGPT. The term I meant to use is "evergreen." It refers to browsers that automatically update in the background, so everyone is using the latest version of their chosen browser. I'll edit my original comment.
- tannhaeuser 4y ago
  Ah ok, you mean evergreen, in that case everything is ok in browser land ;) > it's only been in recent years that all the browsers became "evergreen" and are able to add new changes at a rapid pace The "rapid pace" is due to basically only three browsers left, and the only winner is the browser cartel we're enduring.
  - chatmasta 4y ago
    > the only winner is the browser cartel As a user, I sympathize and agree wholeheartedly with this argument. But as a developer, I feel like one of the winners. I certainly don't miss the days of adding complexity to my build tooling or limiting which features I can use, just because I still need to support some inexplicably popular browser that last received updates half a decade ago. I'm not sure what the answer is, but perhaps some crazy person out there should consider building their own browser from scratch. That's the only way we'll get more open competition in the market...

chatmasta 4y ago

I think I might be misremembering the term. It's not "greenfield," but "green" something, and is used to refer to browsers updating relatively simultaneously, which only began in the past few years. EDIT: I love ChatGPT. The term I meant to use is "evergreen." It refers to browsers that automatically update in the background, so everyone is using the latest version of their chosen browser. I'll edit my original comment.

tannhaeuser 4y ago
Ah ok, you mean evergreen, in that case everything is ok in browser land ;) > it's only been in recent years that all the browsers became "evergreen" and are able to add new changes at a rapid pace The "rapid pace" is due to basically only three browsers left, and the only winner is the browser cartel we're enduring.
- chatmasta 4y ago
  > the only winner is the browser cartel As a user, I sympathize and agree wholeheartedly with this argument. But as a developer, I feel like one of the winners. I certainly don't miss the days of adding complexity to my build tooling or limiting which features I can use, just because I still need to support some inexplicably popular browser that last received updates half a decade ago. I'm not sure what the answer is, but perhaps some crazy person out there should consider building their own browser from scratch. That's the only way we'll get more open competition in the market...