• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    24 hours ago

    Mozilla is a lost cause, and Firefox is too big to be rescued by one singular web-browsing development entity (that’s because the web has become too complicated so as to allow for terminal capitalism).

    The solution is, honestly, for a well-constituted organization to hard-fork the web standards model as a whole package, to start a sort of “re-web” project. Pick up something like gemini but iterate it to a level where it can actually be useful (gemini, nifty as it is, is actually less capable of layout and styling than the printing press from the 1500s and that’s saying something). Maintain a “convertible subset” of HTML+CSS as an input option for people who want to maintain and develop simple sites that might want to eventually convert to re-web.

    • kuneho@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      19 hours ago

      gemini, nifty as it is, is actually less capable of layout and styling than the printing press from the 1500s and that’s saying something

      it’s like that by design, that’s the point of the protocoll

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        14 hours ago

        Yeah but that doesn’t really help much if the goal is “the web, but mote vintage of it”. My impression of gemini is it’s more like, to publish things you’d read on a beeper from the 90s.