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posted by mrpg on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-doomed! dept.

Mozilla's CEO is not enthusiastic about Microsoft's switch to Chromium:

When Microsoft announced that its Edge browser would be revamped using Chromium, the internet's response was generally quite positive. Edge is far from the worst browser on the planet, but it's certainly not what we'd call a fan favorite. As such, even the slightest indication that it could be changed significantly would have been welcome news for many.

However, it would seem that "many" doesn't include one individual in particular: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. In a blog post published today, titled "Goodbye, EdgeHTML," Beard expressed his frustrations with Microsoft's decision.

"By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google," Beard writes in the post. "This may sound melodramatic, but it's not. The "browser engines" — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are "inside baseball" pieces of software that actually determine a great deal of what each of us can do online."

Microsoft's switch to Chromium could be a big boon for Google's own implementation.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:37PM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:37PM (#772009) Homepage Journal

    I remain dumbstruck that HTML 5 permits unclosed elements.

    That surely makes rendering engines significantly more difficult to write.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:15PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:15PM (#772025)

    I think some don't even act properly when you do close the ones that are "optional".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:49PM (#772067)

    blame netscape for the madness. they should have been strict in what html they accepted. instead they dumbed it down for the masses, accepted brokeness, and we got the shit show we have today.