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lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

how long is a piece of string?

sorry. browsers are insanely complex pieces of software. like, operating system level. the standard has grown enough that the web is it’s own platform. so your definition of “daily use” is what is important; servo can open web pages, render html and css, and store cookies. it can also do some javascript. that’s enough to deal with like 80% of all websites ever written… but not the ones non-technical people use like facebook and twitter.

there’s also the matter of what features you actually require: tabs were not a standard feature for the first fifteen or so years of the web. search in the url bar was seen as an antipattern at first and wasn’t included. credential storage (like password autofill) wasn’t added until like 20 years in.

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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

how long is a piece of string?

Twelvety.

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- Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Pfft, that’s nothing! My strings is twelvety three
  
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

like, operating system level. the standard has grown enough that the web is it’s own platform.

Which is why I hate it. It both muddies and replaces the real (hypertext linked documents available globally) web and by itself is more complex than it needs to be, and inconvenient for screen readers, robots, Braille terminals and such.

For cross-platform applications server over Web - Java Web Start was a good idea, just far too early introduced and it was slow. And it should be run in a sandbox.

I’m serious, that’s exactly what Java is intended for, designed, not evolved. From the beginning. Evolution is good when it’s been many thousands of years and you reap the results. Evolution is not good for something that’s engineered. A wooden bridge unattended “evolves” towards falling apart, despite all the moss covering it making it seem firmer.

search in the url bar was seen as an antipattern at first and wasn’t included.

It still is an antipattern. Guessing machines are not good.

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