Article 50WVS DeVault: The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

DeVault: The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

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Drew DeVault complainsabout the complexity of the web and the browsers that work with it."The major projects are open source, and usually when an open-sourceproject misbehaves, we're able to to fork them to offer an alternative. Buteven this is an impossible task where web browsers are concerned. Thenumber of W3C specifications grows at an average rate of 200 new specs peryear, or about 4 million words, or about one POSIX every 4 to 6 months. Howcan a new team possibly keep up with this on top of implementing theoutrageous scope web browsers already have now?"
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