Thanks. How much of the remaining missing support is necessary for pragmatic daily-driver use by computer nerds?
For what I have in mind, initially, a non-requirement is perfectly mimicking whatever someone managed to jam into a standard, unless it's really necessary to use "necessary" sites.
(Anyone who does a lot of blocking of ads/trackers will already be familiar with sites not being pixel-perfect.)
I'm thinking that bending over to mimick someone's big-moat browser behavior standards in every detail can be a secondary priority, for later, after nerds are already using it successfully as a daily driver.
Nothing says nerds can't keep a Chromium installed as an emergency backup, for trying that one demo that uses the latest thing Google-Microsoft is going to railroad into the standard, or for watching Netflix while traveling. (And for Web development testing, of course.) But otherwise, we should be dogfooding, like we had to do with Linux.
Seems like most nerds that are looking for an alternative browser engine are instead moving towards Ladybird.
Last year they passed Servo in WPT and recently passed Servo in stars.
As of January, Ladybird has been able to successfully render Gmail[0], so I imagine this year it will be able to solve most users daily-driver requirements.
neilv|1 year ago
For what I have in mind, initially, a non-requirement is perfectly mimicking whatever someone managed to jam into a standard, unless it's really necessary to use "necessary" sites.
(Anyone who does a lot of blocking of ads/trackers will already be familiar with sites not being pixel-perfect.)
I'm thinking that bending over to mimick someone's big-moat browser behavior standards in every detail can be a secondary priority, for later, after nerds are already using it successfully as a daily driver.
Nothing says nerds can't keep a Chromium installed as an emergency backup, for trying that one demo that uses the latest thing Google-Microsoft is going to railroad into the standard, or for watching Netflix while traveling. (And for Web development testing, of course.) But otherwise, we should be dogfooding, like we had to do with Linux.
seaal|1 year ago
Last year they passed Servo in WPT and recently passed Servo in stars.
As of January, Ladybird has been able to successfully render Gmail[0], so I imagine this year it will be able to solve most users daily-driver requirements.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l8epGysffQ
worik|1 year ago
I do, now
My boss insists on Google Meet, and it will not access audio on Firefox
Every single other website does not have this problem, dark patterns indeed
mgrandl|1 year ago