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Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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I think it’s just fantastic that the Ladybird browser is close to being usable. I was under the impression this was going to take many years before it became competitive.

I've started using it for some websites. It's surprisingly very capable already.

Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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It's own, LibJS https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/Libr...

Wow, how does it compare to V8 ? They spent many years optimising it.

It's not as fast or as feature-complete. That's OK for now, though.

Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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You seem to totally be overlooking who Hank was paying homage to with that name. Thanks to Ladybird, spring time in Texas provides a colorful palette of wildflowers, especially the bluebonnet, to travelers along the highways.

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Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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I think it’s just fantastic that the Ladybird browser is close to being usable. I was under the impression this was going to take many years before it became competitive.

While I haven't tried it myself, I've seen a few of the monthly summaries videos. Passing the tests and being fast enough for daily usage is two very different things and right now Ladybird doesn't appear to be all that speedy.

Still an amazing feat of development from the entire team.

Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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Can you elaborate? What do you mean by how to pass tests securely? It doesn't read like you mean security tests but otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about.

Conformance testing means that you meet certain specifications. It tells nothing about how you handle data which is different from the specs or random data; or in other words, the root of most security problems.

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Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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I wish them well, but browsers are very much pay-to-play. Google had to pay their way to their current dominant position.

Don't forget, Firefox didn't succeed because Firefox was good, it succeeded because IE was bad. People don't like having to choose between Google Chrome and Google Firefox.

I'm not sure about it - there were other contestants: Opera, Netscape, even the big Mozilla Suite.

Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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It's always struct me as interesting that ladybird is built with C++. I like C++, and prefer it to languages like Rust, but it's not uncommon to see new OSS projects using weird languages and the newest tools. Lots of languages offer improvements in regards to threading models, development speed, or cross-platform support which we don't get in C++.

I suppose their success is likely directly related to the fact they made reasonable, practical development choices, but still.

Re: Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

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If you have a spec and a test suite, shouldn't you really be passing all the tests before shipping this stuff to a user?

Have you seen the state of the tech industry?

"Ship it, then fix it" is considered normal now, for some reason.

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