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"X is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of
by jusben1369 14y ago
"X is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web."
Probably says more about how long I've been around but I think I've read a mostly similar paragraph 5 to 6 times over the last decade.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoAnd, in the past decade, we've seen the web browsers make significant leaps in security and capabilities. I'm happy to have more of the same.
- raldi 14y agoMozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and I think one of the IE's too. And now this. So yeah, 5-6 is a good estimate. Edit: Also the original Netscape.
- fzzzy 14y agoNone of those were from the ground up. Mozilla was based on the netscape codebase, firefox was based on the mozilla codebase, safari was based on the khtml codebase, and chrome was based on the webkit codebase. IE I'm not sure about, but it seems unlikely that they started from the ground up, surely newer ie uses code from older releases.
- lifthrasiir 14y agoUnless there are actually multiple layout engines developed by Microsoft. At least three (Trident, Tasman and some other used by Expression Web) of them are known, and it is entirely possible that they don't share the common codebase.
- fpgeek 14y agoYou're right. Internet Explorer was originally based on Spyglass Mosaic. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer