Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems like your really pondering “HTML should be conspicuously slow for such a widely-used standard,” right?
The answer is that modern browsers are complex and highly optimized rendering engines.
Read back through this blog: mozillagfx.wordpress.com
But in a nutshell, there’s a lot of talk about how modern browser are analogous to tuned game engines, heavily relying on the GPU and all sorts of hacks to render HTML efficiently. V8 is another good example, taking what was a notoriously slow language (JavaScript) and hacking out a fast JIT engine for it.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why it’s vitally important to use FIrefox rather than any Chromium-based browser (even ostensibly “degoogled” ones), BTW: we need a robust diversity of browser engines to prevent Google from having hegemony over web standards.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TBH 2-3 would be good, since each browser takes a monumental amount of effort/money to optimize.
Like, my best case somewhat plausible scenario would be Apple (and maybe some other vested interests?) merging Firefox and Safari into one open source effort that can keep up with Google (with Safari being a “branded” Firefox). There just isn’t enough money for a couple of open efforts to keep up with Chromium.