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   Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:42:13 JST Bricky
   Efforts to write a browser and layout engine from scratch, like what Ladybird is doing, is a waste of time. The Linux Foundation seem prepared to 'buy' the rights to the Chrome brand, with names like Brave, Igalia and Vivaldi not part of the venture.
   
   In the medium term (6-12 months), we'd be better off looking to steward Firefox before Mozilla's funding collapses. In the longer term (>12 months) I believe Servo would be a better bet as it looks closer to a finished product than anything else IMO.
   
   I don't think this is different to how I felt last year about the Web's state of play. Things have happened since and I feel it reinforces what I'd like to see happen.
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:42:12 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     @thatbrickster I'd say the more the merrier. Having only two major families of web browser is a shitty situation. I guess Gecko will live on for quite a while anyway, but if it died, then I'd rather have both Ladybird and Servo as alternatives to WebKit, than only one of them.
     
     By the way, isn't Apple likely to continue developing WebKit anyway? Or did Google and Apple both go with their own forks at some point? I forgot.
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 00:43:28 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @thatbrickster Oh it's apparently been 12 years already lmao. Totally forgot about Blink.