Quoting an anonymous Twitter user (got harrassed for these statements):

"Safari is buggy" is a valid criticism.

"Safari is behind Chrome in features" is not a valid criticism.

Never forget that the browser vendors, including Google and Apple, seized control of the web from the W3C. These few companies have too much power over the web, period.

1/8

The web has massive feature bloat. It's a privacy and security nightmare.

I personally think we should abolish JavaScript and not allow arbitrary remotely loaded code to execute on our computers.

"I want web sites to do everything a native app can do" is a suicidal mistake.

2/8

The more features that are added to the web, the less browser competition is possible! This is essential to recognize.

And Google knows it! That's the whole point.

Who can keep up with Google? Mozilla can't. Apple can't. Even Microsoft threw in the towel and adopted Chromium.

3/8

Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible! The web is so complex, there's no choice but to adopt one of the few existing browser engines: Chromium, WebKit, Gecko. That's it. The competitive landscape is bleak.

4/8

"Everyone has to adopt Chromium" is exactly Google's plan.

Who controls the dominant browser engine controls the web.

5/8

@alcinnz

Forgive me it's morning where I usually have the best and worst ideas... as usual it needs a rethinking and looking at in different ways but this is my quick-best which I'm sure I'll revisit myself....

Perhaps it's not about heading for choice when it's always going to change for the worse in this kind of industry which makes us chase all the time and makes what is good to go bad and over-controlled / monopolised / bought out.

The aim might be / could more / should be (?) about making it *ours* whatever we do. Making development stick to this headline and perhaps even creating our own ways with what is less changeable and probably already exists. I'm thinking what is native to server as it's basic functionality.
We would then optionally install something for satisfying something else (for banking etc) so perhaps not an all-in-one design which demands a lot and has many deal breakers... and this is talking generally here not necessarily for this existing development exactly.
As food for thought designing or using something that already does what we do but perhaps improve the other sides (I mentioned a few things before like Advertising Education for Open Source world).
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108121601509467853
Getting people's mind and togetherness right in a human sense and also technological (buying pine phones or librelaptops and helping that at same time etc), Tying it all.

Something that makes what we do make and design as interoperable as basics are (like files) or adjustably basic as possible so in the long term we don't get constantly rug-pulled or undone as big bits of our own work from the 'work' or others they simply hire (hiring skill-sets like mercenaries towards domination / monopoly / reducing effective opposition).

This maybe too premature or not precisely written, but doing work around what they frankly they own is always going to be on the horizon as everything else is a temporary thing unless it locks in something with teeth to avoid that or make it very costly or even financially rewarding users to snow ball that instead of destroy it.. which might be short term too. So this is what I mean when I say chasing; if they own / control things more than we then at some point we accept and head for something else (using google while closing all the reasons you use it) and trying not to give them ideas on pushing other things either. The whole system is theirs, yes we choose where to stand.. and again all is appreciated and I'm not claiming more than keeping to basics which I think we all are somewhat... but not expecting same-same or even similar products or services always or to feed their bad designs.

Eventually people are being politically kicked out of things, rug-pulled, oxygen-starved while people claim they didn't do it... so it means we have to accept less in long term, and perhaps with my designer hat on, much less.

Again, I mean something that stays right more often or works well already, something like what offline does or audio between us etc.

And then generally after to increment some blocks of things that are equally sold or basic, maybe just a reinterpretation of basic rather than big dependency where 1 thing breaks the complex features on top.
Adding a plugin or module for 1 specific task perhaps to try to achieve something in our world or our design or maybe for 'their' world as an equivalent or token attempt while still focussing just add-ons from existing basics *keeping* basics... which in the end we might just call pictures and text for the most part!

Again a quick post. which like everything needs 2nd...3rd..4th pass with people's input too...
Thanks for your work.