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I imagine that is quite a huge feat! Here's a questions for the HN gurus though: how much of a browsers code deals with errors, compatibility, and legacy?? I im
by goalieca 13y ago
I imagine that is quite a huge feat! Here's a questions for the HN gurus though: how much of a browsers code deals with errors, compatibility, and legacy?? I imagine A LOT.
- mbrubeck 13y agoFortunately, even the backward-compatibility quirks modes have a spec now: http://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/ http://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/ Just having more and more of this stuff documented (instead of having to reverse-engineer it from existing browsers) makes things a lot easier than they once were.
- gsnedders 13y agoArguably a large part of the interest in Servo is whether the specs are good enough that developing a new browser from scratch is now feasible — certainly, yes, there is a lot of institutional knowledge around Mozilla, but a from-scratch implementation isn't going to exactly match Gecko everywhere.