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1. torgin+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-02 17:13:53
Which is kind of a bummer - it'd have helped the standards based web to have an actual powerful entity maintain a distinct implementation. Firefox is on life-support and is basically taking code from Blink wholesale, and Webkit isn't really interested in making a browser thats particularly compliant to web standards.

MS's calculus was obvious - why spend insane amounts of engineering effort to make a browser engine that nobody uses - which is too bad, because if I remember correctly they were not too far behind Chrome in either perf or compatibility for a while.

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2. Neverm+1c[view] [source] 2026-02-02 18:12:55
>>torgin+(OP)
It would have helped the standards based web, if the standards based web wasn't a fermenting spaghetti monster.
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3. torgin+Qq[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-02 19:26:46
>>Neverm+1c
From what I've heard a W3C standards meeting is basically a Zoom call between Blink and Webkit engineers.
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