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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 Thursday March 18 2021, @02:04AM (1 child)
Blaming that mess on the Electoral College misses a much bigger problem. The USA has the same two parties at both federal and state level and the federal heads control everything. If state-level politics could be split off so that the federal parties weren't allowed to interfere with state elections and each state had to have its own parties, with separate leadership and finances for all, that would break things up enough to give local issues a real voice in the public square and give the states legitimate incentive to push back against federal overreach. The founders were big on separation of powers, but that was the biggest one they missed. Of course fixing it would take power away from some of the most powerful people in the world so there would be murder done to prevent such an idea from ever gaining traction.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday March 19 2021, @01:50AM
Just as difficult to get through is another scheme to give third parties a chance -- ranked ballot with instant runoff.