I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium or reviving the idea of using the built-in OS WebView control (which is mostly Chromium nowadays anyway), at least that would be a standard web environment.
Helping in avoiding making Chromium the default is icing on top of the cake.
Edit: I also want a massively cut down, blazingly fast rendering engine for a subset of html that is big enough for Wikipedia. Specifically I want it to be paired with a strictly limited version of something like Javascript, only limited and with batteries included.
Dynamically updating content on user clicks should be OK, running general calculations should be hard.
I wish someone did a deep dive (in English) on what this is and how to use it (with focus on disk space and runtime performance characteristics).
> "...Some of these directions better suit Open Source development model for many reasons."
So they want $100,000 to give people the source code. Then they're saying it will suit Open Source Development (also requesting free labour from the community).... this is a red flag
As far as red flags go, educate yourself: open source work is unsustainable without external sources of income: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html