I’ve seen in various threads that the current browser engines aren’t good, such as gecko and blink. The question is why? Why do we need a new one, and what’s stopping a new one being made? Is it just the fact that they’re a lot of work to make?

  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    What are the biggest reasons for the complexity? What would we be giving up if browsers were simpler?

    I remember back in the 90s when it was mostly text and hyperlinks (and animated gifs). Now, we have a lot of nice features of course, javascript and what not, but which of these features are the heaviest for browser complexity?

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      ExecutiveChimp said look at the APIs. In the dark ages; yeah a browser was simpler when all it had to do was render html 1.0.
      But mosaic 1.0 does not functionally run on today’s web.

      All the things that modern browsers do; and how they run and interact with your computer; how many zero days have MS Apple and Google patched in the last year?

      security Week says there were 7 zero days as of the end of November: and I didn’t bother to look at all the other patches.

      So yeah. Hard