Gregory's Server@yo @ploum @ombremad Not to mention a serious lack of software diversity. Web standards have become way too complex. Making a new rendering engine work at all is already a tall order, so I don't even want to think about the work needed to make it fast. That means it is unlikely that we'll see a third rendering engine emerge anytime soon. The fact that even Microsoft gave up is saying something.
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@x0r @yo @ploum @ombremad I agree the modern web is near to impossible to catch up with, with JavaScript and its countless APIs mostly to blame. This is why I suggested a reasonable middle ground between Gopher/Gemini and the modern web: https://xavi.privatedns.org/blog/small-web-browser/ Because of the stable requirements and much lower complexity, such proposal would allow the free software community to come up with multiple, co-existing implementations, similarly to Gopher and Gemini. |
Servo is on (new) track to become a viable engine (now that mozilla isn't the leader anymore).
But my hopes are now going toward libweb and its Ladybird browser which starts to render webpages quite well.
iirc there is a third new engine but i don't remember its name (it was mobile first).
Servo is on (new) track to become a viable engine (now that mozilla isn't the leader anymore).