People are free to make their own browser if they want.
Part of the reason google chrome won the browser wars is because they are willing to make decisions like this. Kitchen sink software is bad software.
Part of the reason google chrome won the browser wars is because they are willing to make decisions like this. Kitchen sink software is bad software.
Some peple are doing that[1]. It's not a matter of desire, but of the amount of effort and resources required to build and maintain the insanity of the modern web stack.
> Part of the reason google chrome won the browser wars is because they are willing to make decisions like this.
Eh, no. Google Chrome won because it is backed by one of the largest adtech corporations with enough resources and influence to make it happen. They're better at this than Microsoft was with IE, but that's not saying much. When it launched it introduced some interesting and novel features, but it's now nothing but a marketing funnel for Google's services.
People say that, but i don't think that's true. The web stack was always insane, the only difference is its documented now. I think now is a much easier time to build a web browser than the past was.
Not to mention the irony of complaining the web stack is insane while insisting a really difficult to support feature that never saw much use should be kept forever because reasons.
> Eh, no. Google Chrome won because it is backed by one of the largest adtech corporations with enough resources and influence to make it happen
Google won because nobody else really tried.
Firefox has been a dumpster fire of bad management decisions and has reduced itself to basically just copying google's every decision sacraficing any unique identity of its own.
Safari is never going win when it is mac only and apple doesnt seem to fund it very hard.
Most of the rest are just chrome reskins that dont deserve to be called a separate browser.
Maybe something interesting might come out of ladybird. Its still quite early to tell.
Google won because it:
- built on a very solid foundation from the start (it started out as a webkit fork), and was generally a good fast browser. This is the very minor part
- Sabotaged Firefox: https://archive.is/tgIH9
- Heavily promoted and advertised Chrome across all of its properties which included such insignificantly small sites like Google Search and Youtube.
Running an advertising campaign is hardly sabotage
Also, you somehow think that running an exclusive directed ad campaign for Chrome on two most popular sites on the internet is nothing to worry about.
No one should fork chrome and maintain it with XSLT still baked in. Not only would it go unused, it doesn't help anyone wanting to ship XSLT on a site because users would literally have to install a different browser just to see that page.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96582/what-is-th...
Ah yes. That's why Chrome bravely refuses to be a kitchen sink. It only has a small set of available APIs like USB, MIDI, Serial, Sensors (Ambient Light, Gyroscopes etc.), HID, Bluetooth, Barcode detection, Battery Status, Device Memory, Credential Management, three different file APIs, Gamepads, three different background sync APIs, NFC...