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[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It still has some of the same problems as the comic, though not to the same extent, it doesn't need to be a standard for the comic to make sense, it's also about market share. Having yet another browser has the potential of diluting the market and making people just go for the default.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

I might agree if it was another Chromium browser or something, but this uses its own rendering engine and thus directly opposes Google's dominance on web standards. Currently, there are only 3 major rendering engines:

  • Blink - Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, etc)
  • Gecko - Firefox browsers
  • WebKit - Safari, GNOME Web (Epiphany), and Konqueror

Ladybird and Servo (Mozilla R&D project) are new ones, and Ladybird seems to have more traction.

Engine diversity is important. Browser diversity... a bit less so.