Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

mozilla’s current c·e·o is bad, but friends, mozilla’s old c·e·o was also bad

mozilla didn’t just directly profit from a situation where only large browsers manufacturers had any say in the direction of the web, they actively created it

remember when W3C leaned too hard into user-centric design and modularity and new X·M·L technologies

and Brendan Eich, noted homophobe, grew concerned with this, not because of its impact to ordinary people, but because he thought that monolithic web browsers manufacturers would wind up losing out to newer, bespoke applications

and so he got Mozilla and Opera together to write a letter saying that the future of computing on the web should take place entirely within the web browser using nothing but HTML, CSS, and a whole lot of Javascript (a language he created)

and they forked HTML from W3C, setting up WHATWG, an organization controlled entirely by web browser implementors, to decide the future of the web going forward

and then Mozilla used the fact that they were “the only nonprofit with a seat at the table of standardization organizations” in their fundraising campaigns for the next decade

@unspeakablehorror @Satsuma GNOME Web, also known as Epiphany, is built on Webkit

i’m not sure what the current status of it is since i think most Linux distributions have switched to Firefox, but it seems to still be putting out releases

nobody writes programs which solve real people problems anymore

has anyone created a better rich text editor for macOS than Bean, a program i first learned about on Open Source Mac Dot Org in 2010

or has innovation well and truly stalled since the early 2000’s

first commit of the new year

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff/ec88b220b74e7a92e727a104be39c7b4a6b03dc1

(it may not work on Linux; i might have used an incompatible option for `touch´)

this is very much just a minimum viable implementation right now; there’s more to add but this WORKS

https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/blob/HEAD:/README.markdown

@gaditb i’m working on it but i’m still building the technology

@Satsuma @unspeakablehorror i think the only people trying to make firefox go away are the people who fund it

@unspeakablehorror @Satsuma webkit isn’t Chromium-based (but it isn’t nonprofit either) [but it’s arguably more nonprofit than Firefox, which is used to drive Pocket and Mozilla V·P·N subscriptions]

but no i’ve seen plenty of people who are more than happy to roll out “your problem is with Mozilla Corporation not Mozilla Foundation and also their huge C·E·O bonuses and A·I investment are just capitalism” when, in fact, no other open source foundation is Like This, mozilla is a huge outlier

• they know they have an image problem and are entirely disinterested in fixing it

• they are far from the only open-source/tech advocacy nonprofit on the planet and others do it better

• dunno why people keep defending them considering the above

is there a frontend for these yet which isn’t mozilla-branded

did i just discover a bug in libxml2 or