Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joerg Lorenz Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:02:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <63232b06@news.ausics.net> <63244c05@news.ausics.net> <0pbVK.432745$iiS8.142515@fx17.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:02:43 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="281250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HNgmDHHBt5dGMz2HLer6nLcAw7s= Content-Language: de-CH, en-US In-Reply-To: <0pbVK.432745$iiS8.142515@fx17.iad> X-User-ID: eJwNycEBwCAIA8CVxECAcSrg/iPY+56BwnKlUe3aBXN8dqvbHw3UWmd/HeKdIA6G4yWhka4tDwpPEFE= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35650 Am 17.09.22 um 05:45 schrieb Charlie Gibbs: > On 2022-09-17, 25B.Z969 <25B.Z969@noda.net> wrote: > >> Oh, and do we really NEED another web browser ??? Everybody >> is after a seriously de-junked FireFox or Chromium - but I'm >> not sure that's a viable option anymore. > > It sounds to me like Ladybird is an attempt to make it a viable option. > >> People expect a LOT of browsers now and too much de-junking means >> a serious lack of desired capabilities. > > I think the point of the exercise is to produce a browser that has > a serious lack of _undesired_ capabilities. What desired capabilities of other users are or not is outside your judgment. >> Any new product - there's be a huge lobby demanding they ADD >> all those junky features. > > Perhaps - but there's also a small lobby demanding that they > _don't_ do so. The historic evidence is clearly against you. Use a command line-browser. >> 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. -- Gutta cavat lapidem (Ovid)