• Hellfire103OP
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      5716 hours ago

      Going from lawful to chaotic, good to evil, we have:

      • Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey, and derivatives)
      • Servo
      • Libweb (Ladybird)
      • Links2 (as well as ELinks and other forks)
      • WebKit (used in a lot of stuff, namely Safari and GNOME Web)
      • Goanna (Pale Moon and Basilisk)
      • QtWebEngine (Konqueror, Falkon, and qutebrowser)
      • Blink (Chromium, Brave, and derivatives)
      • Trident (Internet Explorer, old versions of Maxthon, old versions of Avant, and any homemade browser created with Visual Studio).
          • Midnight Wolf
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            614 hours ago

            What’s going on? I’ve seen this new browser engine referenced recently a decent bit but I have no info beyond ‘it’s new and exists’.

            • The Quuuuuill
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              2414 hours ago

              the lead dev is a freeze peach absolutist. he’s said some ignorant shit about trans people and when people said “hey, let’s adjust this language” he was like “let’s not get political”

              • xigoi
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                1013 hours ago

                Is this really the hill you want to die on and rather have a Chromium monopoly?

                • TurboWafflz
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                  Yes, basic respect for people is far more important than any web browser

                • The Quuuuuill
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                  77 hours ago

                  the ladybird dev wants to work with people who want me dead. so. yeah, fuck him. mozilla ain’t great, but they’re the least dangerous engine builders right now. servo would be a better engine for us to rally around, but everyone would rather talk about the less mature, more fascist accepting, project.

                  nazis are bad. that’s the hill i’m willing to die on. this is bigger than a browser engine.

                  • xigoi
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                    67 hours ago

                    the ladybird dev wants to work with people who want me dead

                    What the fuck? Do you have a source for this?

                  • xigoi
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                    49 hours ago

                    Yes, and that’s precisely why we need Ladybird, no matter what pronouns it uses for users.

                  • Engywuck
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                    I’d say that Chromium has a monopoly thanks to Mozilla.

      • @21Cabbage
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        211 hours ago

        Usually a Firefox guy but gonna give GNOME web an install for shiggles since I remember safari being fun to play with back in my teenage “hacker” days.

      • 2xsaiko
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        315 hours ago

        Huh, I didn’t know MSHTML as used in IE was also called Trident. I thought Trident was specifically early Edge before they switched to Blink.

        • Ephera
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          414 hours ago

          The Edge engine before Blink was called “EdgeHTML”.

    • Gormadt
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      817 hours ago

      Also a quick cliff notes on what each is would be greatly appreciated

      I only recognize the Chromium icon…

      • @[email protected]
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        These are browser engines, or at least software for rendering HTML but not necessarily the actual browser. I don’t know them all, but top left, Gecko, is the engine for Mozilla, center is Web Kit for Safari, bottom center is Chromium for Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc., and bottom right is Trident, the old engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

        • @[email protected]
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          616 hours ago

          what’s the difference between the engine and the browser itself? is it similar to the Linux kernel vs the Debian user space?

          • Ephera
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            514 hours ago

            The engine makes it so HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. are downloaded and turned into pixels you can look at. The browser embeds an engine for that purpose, but then also has a URL bar, tabs, bookmarks, a history feature and so on.

        • Engywuck
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          112 hours ago

          These are browser engines, or at least software for rendering HTML but not necessarily the actual browser.

          That’s why this post makes no sense. There’s no “evil” rendering engine. They should be judged by technical parameters.