Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Annbass@[email protected] It’s so exciting to see this take off! You get tons of credit for sticking to it & getting #ActivityPub out the door way back in the day when few others saw the vision. A warm hug to you! #SocialWebWG #W3CSpecification
@kasra_mp It's not a question of how long it took (though that's a strong indicator of Google's dedication to the task), but of what the result is:
The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications.2
I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.
It is impossible to:
- Implement the web correctly
- Implement the web securely
- Implement the web at all
-- Drew DeVault
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
Complexity is a principle tool of monopolisation.
#DrewDevault #EmbraceExtendExtinguish #W3CSpecification #Complexity #Google #GoogleChrome
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