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Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry:

The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good sides after all these years.

I guess if IE would become FOSS this would bring some fresh air to the ecosystem.

discuss

zarzavat|3 years ago

WebKit and Blink are two different engines. They split off 9 years ago. There’s no such thing as a WebKit monoculture. There may be a Blink monoculture depending on how much you care about mobile browsers, mobile Safari is still very popular especially in the US.

vimy|3 years ago

iPad Safari is close enough to desktop Safari now that it switched to the same user agent as desktop Safari. That surely helps to bump Safari’s marketshare.

dunefox|3 years ago

We already have Firefox and few people use it compared to chrome. A third engine does not matter.

rasz|3 years ago

Yes, but not the IE. Opera Presto! Source code even leaked after Opera switched to webkit, and some Russians tried patching new things, but legal status made unsustainable :(.

DarrenDev|3 years ago

DuckDuckGo are building new native browser apps for Mac and Linux. Not sure how far along they are, but I know they have teams working on each.

MarcellusDrum|3 years ago

It is for Mac and Windows, not for Linux. They also are using WebView/WebView2, so they aren't building an engine.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-brow...

Georgelemental|3 years ago

Those are just wrappers around the platform WebView I think.

anthk|3 years ago

I would be happy enough if Dillo parsed the video and audio tags as <a> links.