Because the amount of stuff expected of them by the unfathomably huge standards is obscene. The web was made by layering shit on top of shit.
What we need is a do-over - discard everything but webgl, javascript, web assembly, web sockets, and a couple other native interface APIs. That's what will happen naturally anyway - the old stuff will become deprecated.
The main thing stopping this today might surprise you: font rendering. It's impossible to get the quality and performance rendering fonts through webgl that we easily get in 2D.
So apparently, /g/ is developing a web browser given the recent fuckery with Chrome and Firefox...
Logan Richardson
Jose Edwards
or... fork old Firefox again .
Zachary Morris
gj
Isaiah Long
...
Hunter Robinson
At that point just use/contribute to Pale Moon.
Anthony Richardson
The people on /g/ are complete morons.
They won't use chrome because google botnet but spend all day filling in google captcha botnets with their raw IPs.
Michael Roberts
What I listed is a tiny sliver of what a browser has to support today.
Adam Johnson
And a very good name.
Ian Cook
KYS. The web should be for documents, period.
Henry Collins
wtf
Also, iirc firefox is open source. Why not contribute to that one and make it good? Or to some other open source browser.