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How are Safari users part of the Chromium monoculture problem?

• smoldesu 3y ago
  It's part of the KHTML monoculture that has been harming our industry and holding us back from real progress.
  • mschuster91 3y ago
    If you want a browser engine it's either one of the KHTML descendants or Firefox. The problem is, both are ridiculously complex, only one family has the backing of three multi-billion dollar giants, and the other infamously suffers from "progressive disease" aka complete unwillingness to move fast and instead preferring to engineer the "perfect" solution. That even Microsoft couldn't manage to keep up with progress only shows how utterly impossible it would be to kickstart a browser engine. (The fact that Mozilla as an organization is embedded in constant infighting and utter incompetence doesn't help either)
  • meepmorp 3y ago
    That's kind of a stretch.
    • smoldesu 3y ago
      It's kinda hyperbole, to demonstrate how taut of a claim "Chrome monoculture" is. We had a shot at open browser engine development with limited scope. Everyone said no, not just Chrome. Mozilla and Apple both have blood on their hands too, if we want to be reductive.
• toyg 3y ago
  They support another monopolistic player that would do exactly the same thing. ... oh wait, they already did. They force a monoculture on all the platforms they can get away with, and even shipped this WEI crap already.