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Opera 3.62 and 12.14-12.16 are still great browsers and I still use them sometimes.
Maybe I'm being naive but why would you use such an old browser? There seem to be many vulnerabilities. https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-6470/
I don't care about the vulns when I'm only browsing my own or trusted websites or localhost.
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The irony was how ages ago everyone was waiting for a browser to come along and unseat IE, which was not a good browser. Now Chrome works well enough as a browser and has so much market share that it exerts too much control over its users and the Web, and it's unlikely that anything will be capable of obsoleting it in the near future.
I think the trick might be to make a browser that supports a reasonable subset of html/css/js + some killer feature. (Much easier said than done, though: but some kind of mobile app platform like WeChat might be a good way to get a foothold) Or just fork webkit/blink and aggressively refactor.
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Opera 3.62 and 12.14-12.16 are still great browsers and I still use them sometimes.
Maybe I'm being naive but why would you use such an old browser? There seem to be many vulnerabilities. https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-6470/
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I think the trick might be to make a browser that supports a reasonable subset of html/css/js + some killer feature. (Much easier said than done, though: but some kind of mobile app platform like WeChat might be a good way to get a foothold) Or just fork webkit/blink and aggressively refactor.
The killer feature could be a file type named after the kinds of websites people make. Say .blog or .forum or .store or .social perhaps even .aggregator or .hn (lol) each would work like a straight jacket or like a website on a platform (.blog like blogger, .store like shopify etc) it could be distributed and insanely fast. Every other link just opens in the normal browser.
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The irony was how ages ago everyone was waiting for a browser to come along and unseat IE, which was not a good browser. Now Chrome works well enough as a browser and has so much market share that it exerts too much control over its users and the Web, and it's unlikely that anything will be capable of obsoleting it in the near future.
I think the trick might be to make a browser that supports a reasonable subset of html/css/js + some killer feature. (Much easier said than done, though: but some kind of mobile app platform like WeChat might be a good way to get a foothold) Or just fork webkit/blink and aggressively refactor.
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I think the trick might be to make a browser that supports a reasonable subset of html/css/js + some killer feature. (Much easier said than done, though: but some kind of mobile app platform like WeChat might be a good way to get a foothold) Or just fork webkit/blink and aggressively refactor.
Surely IE6 already had a "reasonable subset" and devs hated it for holding back progress...
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There are in fact reasons to distrust the Chinese state which have nothing to do with race.
What are those reasons?
All the reasons (privacy/spying, government unaccountability, etc.) that would make basing a tech company in the US bad are worse in China.
It does seem, though, many are (seemingly in bad faith) increasingly conflating criticism and scepticism of the Chinese government with racial or ethnic animosity. It is almost identical to how discussions surrounding the Israeli government are conflated (seemingly in bad faith) with anti-Semitism.
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The killer feature could be a file type named after the kinds of websites people make. Say .blog or .forum or .store or .social perhaps even .aggregator or .hn (lol) each would work like a straight jacket or like a website on a platform (.blog like blogger, .store like shopify etc) it could be distributed and insanely fast. Every other link just opens in the normal browser.
It's interesting to think about this sort of thing: interactive forms generated from OpenAPI specs? Some way to plug-in handlers for specific mime-types? etc.