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   Vivien, cyberconcombre (gugurumbe@mastouille.fr)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 06:43:46 JST Vivien, cyberconcombre

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan the diversity of web browsers is not great (arguably, it never was). We have basically one company that decides where things are going. Depending on a web browser for everything does not seem like a good idea to me.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 06:43:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @gugurumbe I think you're mixing up the rendering engine, of which there are really only 2 or 3, and the browser, which is the full application around that engine. Wikipedia lists 9 major browsers for 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

     The fact that browsers are extensible with plugins makes this level of choice even broader. There are 150K+ Chrome-compatible extensions and about 35K+ Firefox-compatible add-ons. That's a lot of opportunity to vary the browser experience.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 06:44:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @gugurumbe The APIs needed for client-side storage, like the Filesystem API, IndexedDB, and Web Storage, are already standardized and available in most browsers. Web developers can use them today, without waiting for permission from Google.