19 Feb
2016
19 Feb
'16
7:57 p.m.
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 16:21 +0000, Spencer wrote:
At what point do the efforts to patch Firefox out weigh the efforts to build a browser from scratch?
Browsers are extremely complicated.
If you want to explore Mozilla's efforts to build a more modern browser, then I suggest you look over and build Servo:
https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design https://servo.org/
It's cool to imagine free software and privacy communities turning Servo into a viable browser that caters to their interests. Afaik, Servo is the only realistic option for minimizing C code in the browser too. In reality, Servo fails to render much of the web correctly because it's a messy problem.
Jeff