India launches contest to build homegrown web browser(theregister.com)
theregister.com
India launches contest to build homegrown web browser
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/indian_web_browser_development_challenge/
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Good luck implementing standards that are longer than Bible and still evolving. It’s too hard even for MS, but Indians will for sure do that.
Wonder when will someone come up with capabilities of at least Netsurf or Ladybird browsers. But if they will succeed and it will be open source, why not?
Wonder when will someone come up with capabilities of at least Netsurf or Ladybird browsers. But if they will succeed and it will be open source, why not?
TFA calls it "indigenous" which is very woke of them, but if I understand correctly, Indians regard IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate. I can see this starting and ending as a fork of Chromium or Firefox.
> IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate
This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?
This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?
Reading the announcement it seems their biggest concern is privacy/security from a NS perspective by using Indian SSL key servers instead of ones from other countries, not actually the engineering task of implementing every browser standard from scratch, plus other nicety features like signing documents within the browser.
At this point in time I think a large heavily funded government project is the only way we are going to end up with a fourth working rendering engine but no one wants to put in the resources because a sanitized Firefox fork is usually good enough for nearly all applications that need a browser of some sort focused on privacy and security that people have already spent way too much time on to make standards compliant
At this point in time I think a large heavily funded government project is the only way we are going to end up with a fourth working rendering engine but no one wants to put in the resources because a sanitized Firefox fork is usually good enough for nearly all applications that need a browser of some sort focused on privacy and security that people have already spent way too much time on to make standards compliant
the press release.
this is going to be a VERY SERIOUS ISSUE.
take note people.
"an inbuilt CCA India root certificate"...
do you know the implications of this? its kazakhistan all over again in the name of "home grown" shit.
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