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I wonder how hard the last 10% will be? If its a typical software project its going to be 90% more effort for the last 10%.

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And the last 1% will be constantly changing, and never really “done” as a result.

90% is Apple’s standard. I wonder what the general public requires.

The general public probably just needs basic HTML/CSS/JS support along with gzip, zstd, and common image and video formats. Stuff like beacons, accelerometers, bluetooth, device memory, webusb, battery status, etc. (so basically all of the "platform" part of the "web platform") are either extremely niche or actively harmful.

It really depends on what the big sites they use decide to use. I can see Google using more niche web features just to push people to Chrome.

Do I need accelerometer support to watch a full screen video in landscape on YouTube? That’s probably a big deal for anyone who doesn’t use the app, for example.

Why does this need accelerometer support at all? The OS has that data and can instruct the app to change aspect ratio. Then all the website needs to do is to body.addEventHandler("resize", onresize).

Browsers have been historically the biggest and most difficult projects, so hard to say why it wouldn’t be. When they can start promising 20k bounties for segfaults, they are getting close.

They are pretty far way from that. I still think it is one of the most exciting open source projects in recent years.

As someone who has first encounter with the ladybird - why is it exciting?

And how could ladybird attract so many sponsors for such a project? Why wouldn't they fund Firefox instead if they want to achieve some diversity in browser engine field?

I'm curious, not skeptical.

It's hard to fund Firefox when Mozilla spends as much money as they do on other things than Firefox.

> Browsers have been historically the biggest and most difficult projects

That's just a tired thrope that keeps being repeated by people who don't know any better.

Given how few generally usable browsers (3 with different skins) there are and how huge they are with basically required company backing for many employees... How is that a trope?

Ladybird is doing it with 8 devs, and it's working!

I tried it on my m4, it's surprisedly usable.

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