Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Mirioron 2340 days ago
I've been wondering about this recently: perhaps we'd actually be better off with simpler browsers that did less so that the websites would do less?
2 comments
anderspitman 2340 days ago
I've been thinking the same thing, and started[0] experimenting[1] with some ideas. I think it be fun to make a web browser that implements a few HTML tags, flexbox and a few other CSS primitives (no animations), and no JS. Sites that are compatible with it would still work on current browsers.

[0] https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable

[1] https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable

link
dvko 2339 days ago
It's why I'm somewhat against WASM, even though it's very cool from a technical standpoint. It makes the web even more of an operating system, where I'd like it to be less.
link