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Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

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Post by rasz »

antifarben wrote: post #26

Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…

Yes, but not the IE. Opera Presto! Source code even leaked after Opera switched to webkit, and some Russians tried patching new things, but legal status made unsustainable :(.

Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

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Post by the_only_law »

mindcrime wrote: post #4

Counterclockwise[1] Scala IDE[2] [1]: https://github.com/ccw-ide/ccw [2]: https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-ide

Wow I had no idea these were no longer active projects. I guess at the same time though… Eclipse.

Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

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Post by mindcrime »

2143 wrote: post #28
mechatrocity wrote: post #11

Winamp

Blast from the past. Perhaps if it was open source and there was a Linux version (AFAIK there's no Linux version), then it might have lived on. Or maybe not; with music streaming platforms such as Spotify, the world has moved on.

No Open Source version per-se, but Audacious[1] is awfully close. It even supports classic Winamp skins AIUI.

Screenshot: https://fogbeam.com/audacious.png

[1]: https://audacious-media-player.org/

Re: Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?

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Post by vimy »

zarzavat wrote: post #43
antifarben wrote: post #26

Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…

WebKit and Blink are two different engines. They split off 9 years ago. There’s no such thing as a WebKit monoculture. There may be a Blink monoculture depending on how much you care about mobile browsers, mobile Safari is still very popular especially in the US.

iPad Safari is close enough to desktop Safari now that it switched to the same user agent as desktop Safari. That surely helps to bump Safari’s marketshare.
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