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And making a browser that's actually financially viable enough to pay for your time and effort without pissing off your user base because of paid features is ev
by araes 2y ago
And making a browser that's actually financially viable enough to pay for your time and effort without pissing off your user base because of paid features is even worse.
Especially in a crowded market, where we're arguing extensively about a browser that has 2.54% of the market share. Chrome (67%), Safari (18%), Edge (5.2%) [1]
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
Most of those also have a browser mostly as add-ons, bundling, ecosystem value, or trademark / brand name trojans.
Admittedly, if you're looking to make a browser, there's a lot of various prior attempts that remain in existence, yet have never really received that much attention. [2]
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline...
Personal preference is that somebody would implement a scripting language alternative other than Javascript. Anybody heard of TCL lately? It's supposed to be a browser scripting language alternative according to the w3.org specification [3] Really, almost anything other than Javascript as an alternative. Just for some variety.
[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html