Message-ID: <632656c8@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <63232b06@news.ausics.net> <63244c05@news.ausics.net> <0pbVK.432745$iiS8.142515@fx17.iad> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 18 Sep 2022 09:22:48 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 38 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35652 Joerg Lorenz wrote: > Am 17.09.22 um 05:45 schrieb Charlie Gibbs: >> On 2022-09-17, 25B.Z969 <25B.Z969@noda.net> wrote: >>> SHOULD browsers do all Firefox/Chromium do ? Probably not, it's >>> an invite to the malicious. So is using Winders for that matter. >>> Are people going to drop all of those ? NO ! May as well tell >>> them to throw away the credit cards and start paying for >>> everything in person in gold dust. Ain't gonna happen. >> >> If the masses want a huge, awkward, insecure browser, fine. >> Let them fill their boots. That doesn't mean, though, that >> someone shouldn't try to satisfy the minority that neither >> wants nor needs all those bells and whistles. >> >> As for web sites that insist on using all these bells and >> whistles whether they're necessary or not, maybe it's time >> to complain to the companies that create them - and boycott >> them if they refuse to cut back on the bloat. >> >> There's room in the world for more than one web browser. > > There are already very many. Unfortunately only if you count all the different wrappers around the Firefox and Chrome web engines. The others are the ones without enough "bells and whistles" for many websites. I doubt that complaining to the creators of such websites would make much difference (though occasionally I've tried anyway), because if you're using an honest User-Agent header then you're already telling them what browser you want supported in a very clear way. I have been with Dillo, but of course updates to many websites that I frequently visited broke compatibility with it anyway. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#