The article mentions that "web browsers have become resource hungry beasts with millions of lines of code," suggesting that much of this cruft has been the result of having to support backwards-compatible standards for the web.

I'd love to see a project similar in spirit to Servo that instead of aiming to refactor the language browser engines are build with refactors the functionality they provide. Something that identifies the Majority Use Case™ and tries throwing out the rest.

I'm not saying that we should push for deprecation of certain functionality, but I think it'd be interesting if people would start using this browser for the promise of faster, snappier surfing.