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Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?

63 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 12 Mar 25 09:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source

How much would you and or your company be willing to fund Mozilla should it need to become independent of Google?
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wruza ◴[12 Mar 25 11:06 UTC] No.43341953[source]▶
I think the problem is deeper in the standard. Funding those who run after a train that is designed to be expensive to catch up with is wasted effort.

We need Web-next which would be clearly defined in proper primitives and features that don’t suck from the beginning and need no further extension. And a reference implementation of it in a clean way, even if not very performant. E.g. fine if it takes 50MB of RAM just to start and show a welcome tab. Implementors will optimize it later.

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high_na_euv ◴[12 Mar 25 11:29 UTC] No.43342100[source]▶
Why you need reference impl?
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1. wizzwizz4 ◴[12 Mar 25 12:14 UTC] No.43342413[source]▶
There are things you figure out when writing / playing with a reference implementation that aren't obvious from just the spec. For example: the W3C thought `box-sizing: content-box;` was a good idea, but Internet Explorer 3 implemented `box-sizing: border-box;` semantics which are, just, obviously better. (IE6 changed to context-box, but the W3C were introducing border-box in CSS3, which was then available in IE8.)