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What's the issue with current browser engines?
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What are the biggest reasons for the complexity? What would we be giving up if browsers were simpler?
I remember back in the 90s when it was mostly text and hyperlinks (and animated gifs). Now, we have a lot of nice features of course, javascript and what not, but which of these features are the heaviest for browser complexity?
JS. Take a look at the list of APIs involved.
ExecutiveChimp said look at the APIs. In the dark ages; yeah a browser was simpler when all it had to do was render html 1.0.
But mosaic 1.0 does not functionally run on today’s web.
All the things that modern browsers do; and how they run and interact with your computer; how many zero days have MS Apple and Google patched in the last year?
security Week says there were 7 zero days as of the end of November: and I didn’t bother to look at all the other patches.
So yeah. Hard