Chrome has a so called Engine at its core. That is the thing which actually understands websites and can translate that to something you as a user can see and interact with. This engine is called Blink. Many other Browsers such as Opera, Internet Explorer, Brave, etc also use Blink.
That means, the developers of Chrome (=Google) have much power over websites, because they control how users see the websites.
The only other engines (and therefore truly independent browsers) are Gecko from Firefox and WebKit from Safari. Firefox however is also dependent on Google and is currently badly managed. (=The user share of firefox declines, the payment of the CEO is rising).
Furthermore, all these browser engines are written in insecure languages. (=Because when these were started, more secure languages didn’t exist yet).
I’m posting this comment with it right now. Many graphics on the lemmy ui are not rendering, but it’s way better than the last time I tried it about a year ago. So not “ready,” but encouraging.
They test and track compatibility with web standards and are a little over 60℅ last I checked. For JavaScript they are using a library I believe, so CSS and and. HTML are the main things that are failing, also mostly VR stuff was lowering the score.
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Yes please!
I need it
I’m never using a Chromium browser again in my life but Mozilla hates winning so we just have 2 bad browsers.
I’d love if this became a thing.
You’ve got my attention, is it live and usable? Ok I’ll go read the article and find out. - Edit: seems yes! Will try it out tomorrow.
I’m posting this comment with it right now. Many graphics on the lemmy ui are not rendering, but it’s way better than the last time I tried it about a year ago. So not “ready,” but encouraging.
They test and track compatibility with web standards and are a little over 60℅ last I checked. For JavaScript they are using a library I believe, so CSS and and. HTML are the main things that are failing, also mostly VR stuff was lowering the score.
What library, do you know? Is it using the v8 engine? Because that one is Google also
Looks like mozillas which would make sense since they started the project.
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/23261#issuecomment-486967095
I don’t think internet explorer uses the blink engine…
they probably mean edge, which does.
It was the style at the time.