General Discussion • Re: CloudFlare discussion thread

Off-topic:

Wasn't referring to you.

You could have been, with how you've just been a negative Nancy lately.

Well, either way older Gecko and Goanna is ''outdated''.

Older Gecko is, Goanna is not. You've been on the forum almost 1.5 years and still have trouble grasping what we do here.

We really need more alternative browser engines out there.

I completely agree there, for a change. But "alternative browser engines" will all end up in the same situation we are in as long as Google has a monopoly and a firm grasp on what is being written into the "standards", helped by their controlled opposition Mozilla dutifully providing the "second vote". And once it's "in", they have already made very clear that any "counter votes" are unlikely to have it changed. The problem is also traction - as long as alternative engines are held to an impossible-to-achieve standard because specs are changed out from under them and new fluff gets added (and slurped up by web designers as "make work" to ensure their own job security, instead of just making something "good and compatible") then it will be very difficult for any other engines to gain traction in the market.

But, all of this is really tangential to Cloudflare discussions (the only overlap would be to somehow force CF to add compatibility to more engines? Good luck with that if they can't even add long-standing, existing engines like Goanna properly, what makes you think they would add brand new ones that behave differently as well?...) so if you want to discuss that further, please make another thread or move it to a relevant one.