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by llm_trw 808 days ago
>For example, there will never be a feature complete alternative to Chromium/WebKit/Gecko.

That's because Google discovered that by infiltrating the standards committees they can build a much better moat than anything IE ever had.

To the point where everyone, including MS, gave up on implementing a web browser.

The fact that QUIC is now HTTP3 is both awesome in the biblical sense and would be completely unbelievable to anyone involved with the previous versions of the spec in the 90s and 00s.