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Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

Name: od says 2014-08-05 17:00

the web has faaar grown out of control

really, how open is a protocol if you need a team of hundred programmers to implement it?

what is needed is a reset, a reboot to a more simple protocol. of course this will never happen but lets entertain the idea nonetheless.

a protocol that cannot be implemented by a programmer in his spare time over a week is not open, OKAY?

so let's go back and think about why all this shit has to be so complex, aside from encryption, does it really need to be? do we even need HTML anymore? haven't we LOOONG crossed the point at which it would be economical to just send images over the wire?

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