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minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoI 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.
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:
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.