(2024-02-04) Lawson Alternative Browsers

Nolan Lawson toots: The biggest danger to the web IMO is the emerging Google-Apple (web-browser) duopoloy, and the fact that whatever bugs existed in WebKit at the time of the Blink split will just be "how the web works." This is why projects like Servo, Ladybird, and Flow are so important – they prove you can still build a browser from scratch, just based on the spec. (And thank heavens for the spec writers who made this possible.)

• Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded...
• Ladybird is an ongoing project to build an independent web browser from scratch. It is being developed as part of the SerenityOS/serenity project on GitHub. This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
• Flow browser is developed by the Ekioh company, which has made simple browsers for set-top boxes and other embedded systems.[3] Flow is a recent entrant to the browser market. Ekioh selected SpiderMonkey from the Mozilla project for its JavaScript engine, giving it support for JavaScript that is at parity with Firefox.[1][2] The first beta was in December 2020.[4] Ekioh is focusing on its use in embedded systems, including a beta version for the Raspberry Pi.[5][6] As of November 2023, it is still in beta.

Possibilities for the SmallWeb?