Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months agoAlso Gecko’s development is led by people thinking that it being usable outside of Firefox\Thunderbird is a bad thing. There was a time when Gnome’s browser was based on Gecko, not WebKit. And in general it’s influenced by bad practices.
SerenityOS is an amazing project, of course. To do so much work for something completely disconnected from the wider FOSS ecosystem, and with such results.
So it’s cool that they’ve decided to split off the browser as its own project.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s always struck me as odd, but I’m also very much an outsider looking in. A “gecko electron” does sound intriguing though.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 months ago
Servo is going to fill that void
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Never heard of it, I’ll check it out
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I meant alternative browsers, like vimb or surf, but on Gecko and not WebKit.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Sorry, should’ve explained I was just responding to the first sentence in particular.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 months ago
I wonder why Microsoft decided to switch from their own engine to Blink, they could’ve switched to Gecko and keep the web a little bit more free
lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why would Microsoft care?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Because of the momentum behind Blink/Chromium.