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Browser engine for me is like a Linux kernel for me. Everyone should be banding together to work on one. Not making a separate one each year. We have js librar

by ozim 3y ago

Browser engine for me is like a Linux kernel for me. Everyone should be banding together to work on one. Not making a separate one each year. We have js libraries and frameworks for that. Of course some innovations that requires to be done in engine won’t happen as fast - but on the other hand amount of innovation in software that runs in browsers will be much higher. We saw that with IE “innovations” of Microsoft blocked decades of innovations in web apps.

al_borland 3y ago
I thought that was happening years ago with WebKit, but then Google forked it into Blink.
- ozim 3y ago
  If I go to its Wikipedia page Blink is backed by many more companies than just Google. Where WebKit is or was basically Apple and some companies. Not dropping links because anyone can check wiki pages.
  - al_borland 3y ago
    Those companies listed on Wikipedia are ones which have contributed over time, they are far from exhaustive and lack a lot of context. WebKit itself was a fork of KHTML by Apple, and Blink was a fork of WebKit by Google. Both initially started with the one company and then had others contribute to the open source projects. In the WebKit wiki it is noted that WebKit had 50% market share at its peak. This is when IE and Firefox still had about 15-20% market share each. WebKit was well on its way to being where Blink is today. It was used by Apple, Google, Palm, Sony, Nokia, Nintendo, and more. It wasn’t the industry banding together to create Blink. It was Google. Then one by one, various companies gave up the fight, Microsoft and Opera are two of the most notable. Maybe if Apple was easier to work with Blink wouldn’t have happened, but I probably had more to do with Google having their own view of what the web should be, and their own engine lets them push that on everyone.

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Browser engine for me is like a Linux kernel for me. Everyone should be banding together to work on one. Not making a separate one each year. We have js librar

by ozim 3y ago

al_borland 3y ago
I thought that was happening years ago with WebKit, but then Google forked it into Blink.
- ozim 3y ago
  If I go to its Wikipedia page Blink is backed by many more companies than just Google. Where WebKit is or was basically Apple and some companies. Not dropping links because anyone can check wiki pages.
  - al_borland 3y ago
    Those companies listed on Wikipedia are ones which have contributed over time, they are far from exhaustive and lack a lot of context. WebKit itself was a fork of KHTML by Apple, and Blink was a fork of WebKit by Google. Both initially started with the one company and then had others contribute to the open source projects. In the WebKit wiki it is noted that WebKit had 50% market share at its peak. This is when IE and Firefox still had about 15-20% market share each. WebKit was well on its way to being where Blink is today. It was used by Apple, Google, Palm, Sony, Nokia, Nintendo, and more. It wasn’t the industry banding together to create Blink. It was Google. Then one by one, various companies gave up the fight, Microsoft and Opera are two of the most notable. Maybe if Apple was easier to work with Blink wouldn’t have happened, but I probably had more to do with Google having their own view of what the web should be, and their own engine lets them push that on everyone.