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"but sadly we have only 3.5 major engines competing at this point." I actually, don't think rendering engine competition is a great thing. I think competing b
by taf2 12y ago
"but sadly we have only 3.5 major engines competing at this point." I actually, don't think rendering engine competition is a great thing. I think competing browser products is a great thing. Think about node.js and io.js or rails and merb... it's not necessarily a good thing. Everyone kind of assumes that more rendering engines is good thing but I think it's just important that we have at least one healthy open source option. We have 3
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The closed source solutions are the ones we need to hope and pray die away trident. They're evil because there is no hope for any innovation as we saw in the last decade with IE6. MS can do anything they like to re-market their browser but as long as it's closed source engine it has no place in the web IMO. I hope it reaches 1% market share and is forced to go the way of Opera.