I often think about making a new browser.

[mia@front-end.social]

I often think about making a new browser. I mean, as a business it sounds awful. But as a product to design, that would be a top choice.

Browsers could help us make fun little websites with rss feeds, and follow our friends feeds. Your window to the web could also be your home online - customized & shareable, with open web standards.

(Not a bot that says likely words scraped of context. What a total lack of vision for the web)

Put myspace in a browser, you cowards.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mia there are/have been browsers that have played around with those kind of ideas, although I forgot most of the names.

Opera used to be excellent at this before going to shit several years ago, and it was actually pushing for a more accessible distributed web before going down with Opera Unite (my writeup: <https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/opera-requiem-3/>)

Vivaldi is the closest we have to such a thing today, at least UI wise, even though it's beholden to Google's Blink engine.

[mia@front-end.social]

@oblomov There's a reason I use Vivaldi as my main daily browser. And I imagine it's not surprising that Vivaldi was created by Opera alumn.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mia Opera used to be my main daily browser (although as a co-founder of Opera too I wouldn't call Jon just an alumn ;->), but for Vivaldi I can't really make the jump because of the Blink dependency. The future of the open web depends on breaking the rendering engine monopoly, especially with the direction Google is driving its own against well-established standards 8-(