Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by loup-vaillant 978 days ago
> If there's an opportunity to build something 10x better than Chrome, it'll be shipped.

There won’t be. Since IE6 the standards have grown to inhuman proportions, and implementing a new browser engine is even more difficult than it was then.

1 comments

there's no need to do it from scratch, nor to do it all really.

if there's some great innovation it can be introduced in a fork of Firefox/Chrome/etc.

But then you’ll be tide to how your engine of choice did things. There’s no true independence if you don’t have the means to rewrite it.