Why Browser Innovation Matters (/.)
The release of Safari has generated some discussion of Gecko’s complexity and performance which bear addressing. Gecko is large and complex. We would like Gecko to be smaller and simpler and we’re working on it. Elegance, like speed, is sexy. But simple and elegant must be weighed against the need to cope with web content as it exists today. And web content today is not simple, not elegant and not standards compliant. Today’s web requires a rendering engine to do gymnastics to understand the wildly varying ways in which websites operate. Gecko performs these gymnastics with exceptional precision.
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