Oh? How many tools do you know that can parse a current HTML5 react app without importing any existing browser?
Every tool we have to use on the web relies on 4 existing tools that only major companies can build.
I’ll pay you $100 if you manage to write, in 4 weeks, a browser, from scratch, that renders a real life React app accurately, including all content, without importing a single bit of code or libraries from existing browsers or web tools.
> Oh? How many tools do you know that can parse a current HTML5 react app without importing any existing browser?
I don't recall XHTML deprecating JavaScript- pray tell, how would you render the XHTML version of a react app without a browser, or a JS engine as a bare minimum? (X)HTML is orthogonal to Js/react.
I could develop a self-driving car for $50 000 (instead of millions) if human drivers and pedestrians started behaving in well-defined patterns, following strict rules and stopped doing stupid, unexpected things. I'd really love that, but it's not going to happen even though there already are "standards" in the law books.
You asked about innovation, not how easy it is for new people to enter the market. Innovation in browsers has definitely gone up and as a user I feel like I'm winning from this with better websites and more powerful web apps.
How many new browsers do you see? Is that innovation in browsers? Browser competition and innovation is at its lowest ever. Chrome holds 2/3rds usage globally.
I don’t want more powerful ways to display ads, I want to get more content, better connected, without any of the fluff around it.
> Browser competition and innovation is at its lowest ever.
I don't care directly about competition, because that's just a means to an end, and the end I care about is innovation, and I don't agree that innovation is low - I think it's high. New HTML features are coming out in a fast continuous stream, unlike how it used to be.
Every tool we have to use on the web relies on 4 existing tools that only major companies can build.
I’ll pay you $100 if you manage to write, in 4 weeks, a browser, from scratch, that renders a real life React app accurately, including all content, without importing a single bit of code or libraries from existing browsers or web tools.