[kwlug-disc] Firefox blasphemy: time to switch to Blink rendering engine?

[CrankyOldBugger]

I believe that there's some mention of this in the movie Revolution OS  (
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 )

Good movie if you need to brush up on your FOSS history...


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:37 PM John Kerr via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Try this, pick up a sheet of paper, squeeze it between your thumb and
> finger. Check the distance separating your thumb and finger.
>
> If I remember correctly, many years ago, that is how close we came to
> handing the control of web standards over to Microsoft.
>
> Somebody woke up and asked some very important questions and that plan
> flew like an anvil.
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> >> I would want Mozilla to remain on that steering committee, no matter
> >> what.
> >>
> >> And this WebGPU sounds interesting.
> >  >
> >  > ...
> >  > Agree, I think.  I want them on the committee, but if Mozilla has
> > access
> >  > to the open-sourced rendering engine, I'm not sure about what
> >  > detrimental direction Google & Apple could take us in.  Perhaps a
> >  > failure of imagination on my part.
> >
> >
> > I agree AND I think this is a reason why they need to keep working on a
> > renderer/browser.
> >
> > Standards, and web standards in particular, are established by a
> > combination of standard setting and implementation.
> >
> > If Mozilla did not have a browser, then Google/Apple could just choose
> > not to implement a standards which were not profitable for them. Then
> > either the standard would be dead, or someone would need to start
> > another browser.
> >
> > Similarly, if Google/Apple are the gatekeeper on the primary fork they
> > can just not merge changes they don't like. Someone else could maintain
> > a fork with the new feature, but now you have basically re-create
> > Mozilla/Firefox.
> >
> >
> > So, I guess make a donation to Mozilla and use Firefox? ;)
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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