Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 • Hacker News Board

vtesucks wrote: post #6

On the one hand developers have one less engine to worry about. On the other if it becomes a chromium monoculture then Firefox loses.

No, there's now more reason for gecko to survive. Can't have single engine dominate the web.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

mcny wrote: post #9

vtesucks wrote: post #6

On the one hand developers have one less engine to worry about. On the other if it becomes a chromium monoculture then Firefox loses.

On the front page, I saw another headline that said Firefox desktop market share is below nine percent.

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Post by chocolatkey » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC

kainazzzo wrote: post #7

Great news! I really tried to like Edge, and used it exclusively for a few months. It just couldn't do the job.

There is one thing it does/did a very nice job with: EPUB viewing. I sure hope they port that over

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Post by mossplix » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

Despegar wrote: post #8

And then there were three. Even more reason for Apple to never allow anything but WebKit on iOS. This monoculture isn't good for the web. edit: Guess the pro-monoculture folks flagged this.

So webkit is not monoculture? Are you forgetting about konqueror?

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Post by Groxx » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

h1d wrote: post #11

nwah1 wrote: post #4

Very much hope Edge is open sourced.

Do what with it?

learn, if nothing else. surely there are some valuable pieces in there.

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Post by Despegar » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 3:03 AM UTC

mossplix wrote: post #16

Despegar wrote: post #8

And then there were three. Even more reason for Apple to never allow anything but WebKit on iOS. This monoculture isn't good for the web. edit: Guess the pro-monoculture folks flagged this.

So webkit is not monoculture? Are you forgetting about konqueror?

How could it be a monoculture with 14% market share?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

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Post by c-smile » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 3:03 AM UTC

That's just the disaster.

And the end of W3C standard development process. AFAIR it should be 3 independent implementations of the feature in order for Draft to reach Recommendation status.

So technically all that means that web standards will be written by WebKit team alone.

Sic transit Gloria mundi, sigh.

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Post by zapzupnz » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 3:03 AM UTC

mossplix wrote: post #16

Despegar wrote: post #8

And then there were three. Even more reason for Apple to never allow anything but WebKit on iOS. This monoculture isn't good for the web. edit: Guess the pro-monoculture folks flagged this.

So webkit is not monoculture? Are you forgetting about konqueror?

That person meant that if all the main browsers move to Chromium, then it will dominate and cause a monoculture; the same way that Internet Explorer caused a monoculture in the 90s and 00s.

Pointing out that there are competitors doesn't change that their presence doesn't overthrow the monoculture. After all, Gecko was around for a long time and Firefox did become very popular very quickly after version 2; but realistically, it took until Apple put WebKit on iOS for any real dents to be made.

Also, I think Konqueror still uses KHTML by default. I don't know if Konqueror tracks WebKit, but I think they're rather different these days.