After seeing this post about browser wars, I wanted to write an alternative observation of how we came to such a life. But Drew DeVolt already said everything for me.
Since the early wars between Netscape and IE, functionality has become the main tool in browser competition . But the strategy of unlimited growth and expansion is completely insane. For too long we have let it go on.
I used wget to download all 1217 W3C specs published to date 1 . A significant portion of these must be implemented in the browser for the modern web to work. I have calculated the scope of these specifications. How complex do you think the modern web is?
[1] As of 2020-03-18. Excluding the WebGL specs that Khronos is responsible for.
In total, to date, the W3C specification catalog contains 114 million words. If you take the C11, C ++ 17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX standards, add to them all 8754 published RFCs, as well as everything from the list of longest literary works on Wikipedia - the W3C is still 12 million words longer than 2 .
[2] The remaining space can be easily filled using the 5038 pages of the Intel x86 Architecture Manual. You just have to copy it about six times.
My conclusion: it is not possible to create a new web browser . The complexity just goes off scale . The laboriousness of creating a new browser is comparable to sending a person to the moon or creating a nuclear bomb from scratch.
It is impossible to implement the web correctly.
It is impossible to implement the web securely.
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