Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 1 day agoAlso, I’m not going to argue that things aren’t better for developers today than they were before. Sure, web development is much easier these days. But at the same time, I think web applications are way too overengineered. There are lots of things that could be done in simpler ways - for example, why is it necessary to restyle scrollbars, or reimplement standard components like drop-down menus with reimplementations written entirely in Javascript? Things like this are just stupid and having to drop support for trivial things like this in the name of making browsers simpler is well worth it in my opinion.
kogasa@programming.dev 1 day ago
Dropping support for that stuff means breaking 95% of the websites people currently use. It’s a non-starter, it cannot ever happen, even if you think it would be for the best.
Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I remember a lot of similar arguments about how ubiquitous Flash was when mobile devices were first taking off. Not saying it will be easy or even likely not saying it will never happen is a bit of an assumption.
kogasa@programming.dev 9 hours ago
It’s a different situation, as a dev I’d happily bet my life on this assumption.