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With all due respect a web browser is much more complicated than a desktop environment. Firefox is like 30 million lines of code, much of which is active attac
by dralley 8mo ago
With all due respect a web browser is much more complicated than a desktop environment. Firefox is like 30 million lines of code, much of which is active attack surface. A high performance JIT JavaScript engine alone might be more complex than KDE. Random people can fix UI bugs and contribute to simple desktop apps in a way that they likely cannot in general do with the deep internals of a browser.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoKDE includes a web browser. Which spawned Safari in fact.
- peaseagee 8mo agoAnd Chrome!
- pseudalopex 8mo agoKDE removed KHTML and KJS. Falkon is a QtWebEngine wrapper.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoYeah but they did make it. They just dropped maintaining it because it wasn't really being used.
- pseudalopex 8mo agoKHTML and KJS weren't really being used because KDE couldn't keep them useful.
- ori_b 8mo agoWith all due respect, that's all the more reason to put all the resources they can behind browser development, rather than scattering it across unrelated projects.
- rascul 8mo agoKDE has already created a browser engine, a browser, and a JavaScript engine.
- pseudalopex 8mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814523