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Karl Dubost Jul 1, 2024

Welcome to a new browser!

> Ladybird uses a brand new engine based on web standards, without borrowing any code from other browsers. It started as a humble HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby project, but since then it's grown into a full cross-platform browser project supporting Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. — https://ladybird.org/announcement.html

This is good for the Web!

Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

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

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Max

@karlcow why do I get those vibes?! 😉

https://xkcd.com/927/

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Karl Dubost Jul 2, 2024

@maxbob why? This is not a new standard. This is a new engine for implementing web standards. This is essential to the health of the Web. If anything, the diversity of browser engines helps the interoperability. It seems counter-intuitive. Right now, there are Blink, Gecko and WebKit only. Presto is dead. Trident is dead. EdgeHTML is dead. Without multiple engines, there is no need for interoperability and the winner takes it all. And it's where things start to go wrong.