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> So complex that there are now only two There are more than two, and the vast majority of the time people don't need anywhere near the complexity that modern
by autoexec 2y ago
> So complex that there are now only two
There are more than two, and the vast majority of the time people don't need anywhere near the complexity that modern browsers have shoved into them. A lean browser that supported only a bare minimum of features would go a long way to reducing attack surface. As it is now, I already find myself disabling more and more functionality from my browsers (service workers, WebRTC, JS, SVG, webgl, PDF readers, prefetch, mathml, etc)
- echoangle 2y agoThere are more than 2 browsers, but only 2 rendering engines, which are the complicated part of the browser.
- autoexec 2y agoMore than two there too. For example: WebKit, Blink, Gecko, LibWeb, Servo, Goanna, Presto, and Libwww or whatever Lynx is using these days.
- Osiris 2y agoThe first three cover basically 99% of browsers.
- autoexec 2y agoYeah, options exist but it's not a very diverse ecosystem in practice. I'm excited and optimistic about ladybird for that reason. We need more options.
- ta1243 2y agoWe've seen this week that the world does not want options. It wants a single point of failure in all infrastructure so that nobody is blamed for making the wrong choice.
- echoangle 2y agoYou’re right, I completely forgot WebKit. I would say there are currently 3 competitive engines, the rest are not very popular.
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