Ladybird is a new independent cross-platform browser engine, complete with its own JS engine. It has non-profit status in the US (501c3).

Behind it are a long-time KHTML/WebKit developer, and a GitHub co-founder.

> It started as a humble HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby project, but since [..]

https://ladybird.org/announcement.html

via @karlcow @rauschma

#ladybird #browserdiversity

Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

We've created a US non-profit to develop Ladybird into a truly independent web browser...

I was looking for a good resource/article on the importance of #browserDiversity today and found the following, which is quite interesting IMO: https://daverupert.com/2020/09/the-value-of-browser-diversity/ by @davatron5000

Do you have any other recommendations for me? Would love to get deeper into this topic

What is the Value of Browser Diversity?

In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s problem in Firefox. It was a good story fraught with ups and downs and literal “Breaking the Web” level changes for a tiny feature rollout.

daverupert.com

@mike @mttaggart Vivaldi is the KDE of browsers - infinitely customizable. It’s a rabbit hole 🕳️ Every time I think I have it just right I have to try something new or back to old - tabs vert to horizontal, back to vert…as one example.

So many cool theme on #vivaldibrowser…oh, and built in Mastodon…although I stick to the #fosstodon instance…

I feel guilty using Vivaldi as I believe in #browserdiversity but…so, so, SO good

@Vivaldi

Health Benefits of Browser Diversity - Web Performance Consulting | TimKadlec.com

Welp, finally went ahead and started donating a couple bucks a month to Mozilla. Seemed like it was past time.

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US

#firefox #browserDiversity

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Why you SHOULD use Firefox

Important article explaining why Firefox should be your primary browser on the desktop and mobile, revolving around concepts like privacy, security, adblocking, customization, the future of the Web, and more

What you can do:
Switch to another browser. You see what a company having a monopoly on a browser does. We need #browserDiversity (for a whole lot more reaons BTW)!

Here is how to switch to #Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/switch/

#nochrome #nogoogle #switchToFirefox #Firefox

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I'd still say three. Blink is nowadays very different from WebKit, you hardly see a common ground anymore.

So you have three. Actually, did you read my linked #browserDiversity article? Because it's exactly about your point, and I agree: https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-diversity/

(Just developing #KHTML seems like a lost ship to me now.)

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity | CSS-Tricks

Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: "Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink?

CSS-Tricks

@rootkovska It would be great if people did associate a web service/website with one specific browser or not call websites "chrome apps"…

(For your use case, #epiphany e.g. provides something like this and AFAIK it works in GNOME with any website.)

Because #browserDiversity matters: https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-diversity/

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity | CSS-Tricks

Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: "Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink?

CSS-Tricks

@nolan oh, wow. Thanks for sharing that insight.

It is indeed bad if web devs act like that, and Firefox also recognizes WebKit prefixes.
But yeah, real solution is fighting for #browserDiversity.