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For the first time in years, someone is building a web browser from scratch:
For more than two decades, building a new web browser from scratch has been practically unheard of. But a small company called Ekioh has its reasons.
The Cambridge, U.K.-based company is developing a browser called Flow, and unlike the vast majority of browsers that have arrived in recent years, it's not based on Google's Chromium or Apple's WebKit open-source code. Instead, Flow is starting with a blank slate and building its own rendering engine. Its goal is to make web-based apps run smoothly even on cheap microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.
There's a reason companies don't do this anymore: Experts say building new browsers isn't worth the trouble when anyone can just modify the work that Apple and Google are doing. But if Flow succeeds, it could rethink the way we browse the web and open the door to cheaper gadgets. That at least seems like a goal worth pursuing.
"It's a huge task, but if you want something which is very small and very fast, you typically can't start with one of the other engines," says Stephen Reeder, Ekioh's commercial director.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 17 2021, @04:29PM (3 children)
If that doesn't work, they can encourage them to adopt a code-of-conduct, and watch them descend into death convulsions.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 17 2021, @06:10PM (2 children)
I don't need a code of conduct. I am a good person.
I can prove that I'm a good person. If you need to know, just ask me and I will tell you how good I am!
For no extra charge, you can also ask and I will tell you about how amazingly humble I am! More humble than anyone else. Ever!
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 17 2021, @08:42PM (1 child)
Always cracks me up when people complain about CoCs. Muh dudes, everywhere you go, every country you visit has codes of conduct. Apparently the patent trolls were right, reality truly is different when *on a computer*. I don't recall the same outrage when religious nutters have done similar things, I don't see anyone lining up to make selling alcohol legal in dry counties. etc. etc. etc.
buncha whiny snowflakes, weird knowing now that 9/10 insults conservatives/libertarians use is actually something they are guilty of
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 18 2021, @01:31AM
The objection isn't about having CoCs, but to their abuse. There have been multiple organized hostile takeovers of open source projects over the years using deliberately vague and unevenly enforced CoCs to drive out the original team resulting in stagnation of the project while the coffers are pilfered by the newcomers. It is the non-profit equivalent of vampire capitalism. Mozilla hasn't been sucked dry yet but Gnome only exists because Redhat took over the project after it went bankrupt.