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why nobody is making a browser engine?

>opera quitted many years ago and simply started to use chrome engine (they had an actual opera engine ages ago, now its totally abandoned)
>firefox and its relatives all use firefox engine
>all other browsers are just chrome engine with new skin
>microsofts internet explorer was eventually killed (this is actually a good thing)

I am no Mac user so I dont know if Safari is its own engine or if its also a clone of chrome

but basically everything for x86 PCs is firefox or chrome, no real exception here
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>>109886735
cause the modern web is such a mess that it would be a lot of work for someone to keep up with the standards. easier to let google or mozilla do it for you
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Google keeps changing internet standards and websites mindlessly updoot to them despite it breaking older (or independently developed) browsers for no benefit.
You either use a Chrome fork, use Google's bitch (Firefox), or you just don't go online.
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Literary the web standard is the chromium codebase they say this in the specs. For anyone to compete they need to deal with the billion of nonsense that google et al introduced after forming the whatwg after disagreements with the w3c that wanted to keep it as the web of hypermedia while google et al wanted it as a web of jeet script "apps" so they can compete with MS which control the desktop, spy, make gimmicky fancy websites, sell more hardware, and just have more control on our lives.

There's no competition because they realized it's a losing battle. Though I think if someone wants to compete easily he can build upon cef and focus on userland features rather than the web mess, let them deal with their shit
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>>109886822
Though there's quickjs if someone is insane enoigh
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>I wonder why no one wants to waste their time replicating https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ from scratch
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>if Safari is its own engine or if its also a clone of chrome
It does, it's called webkit and PlayStation consoles use it as well.
Fortunately it's not shoehorned into every app and file manager and task bar in existence so it makes me appreciate it a lot more.
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>>109886735
>I am no Mac user so I dont know if Safari is its own engine or if its also a clone of chrome
It's the other way around, Blink (the engine used by Chromium stuff) was forked from WebKit (used by Safari and a couple others, plus everything on iOS/iPadOS).
WebKit itself was forked from KHTML.

Then you have Gecko (Firefox and others) that dates back from Netscape.
NetSurf uses its own thing, originally made for RISC OS.
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>>109886735
Ladybird
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>>109886735
>quitted
dumb frog poster
inb4 le memeing



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