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It doesn’t have anything other than a pre-alpha release and it’s got a clear warning that it’s only for use by developers. That will keep adoption far away from people special casing the browser. Further, it’s open source so incomplete public development is the only way to go for this type of project.

One would think, but ironically Apple's own browser fails the most out of the big three. I've also seen examples of web-developers who already have to do special cases for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari due to their own unique quirks and differences. Web development is hell. https://wpt.fyi/results/

It is an open source project in development, that requires you build it from source to use.

Are you suggesting they reach 100% code completion and test coverage before making it available to anyone?

No browser passes 100% of WPT, the leader is chrome which has about 1000 failing tests

You are a bit off, Chrome is failing over 50.000 tests.

It's still early in development. You are free to build it and run it, but there have been no actual releases to end users. It's very much alpha quality, if even that. It's still slow and full of bugs. However, the code quality is generally very good and there's great potential for this browser to eventually go somewhere.

I don't think Andreas is suggesting that it will be offered on iOS any time soon so much as he is pointing out that they achieved this arbitrary milestone.

Not when there are over 2 million tests (many of which are composed of multiple sub-tests), and there are more being added all the time.

Following the specification perfectly is not possible, even for major players, https://whatwg.org/faq#living-standard

If you have a spec and a test suite, shouldn't you really be passing all the tests before shipping this stuff to a user?

Have you seen the state of the tech industry?

"Ship it, then fix it" is considered normal now, for some reason.

If you take a browser for example, you shouldn't be using any current browser. This is the best example of why this isn't always the way to go

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