The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
There&#x27;s one thing I&#x27;d like to mention to everyone who says it is impossible to build a new browser: while that may be true today, I would just like to point out that the ancestor of the dominant browser engines of today, Blink and WebKit, is KHTML from the Konqueror web browser.<p>While KDE has had some contributions from large corporations, it would be a gross exaggeration to call KDE (or any Linux desktop) a popular success. It more closely resembles a hobbyist project than a commercial juggernaut.<p>While it may be true that KHTML&#x2F;Konqueror was not as polished as WebKit&#x2F;Safari or Blink&#x2F;Chrome before those forks poured massive amounts of corporate development effort into those browsers, the fact is that it was a solid enough foundation for those later corporate contributors to leverage into world domination.<p>In other words: Today&#x27;s small scrappy upstart browser that only hobbyists use may be the embryo of tomorrow&#x27;s near-monopoly. Please don&#x27;t abandon your ideas for new browsers+engines, give them a shot. Even if you do not directly benefit from its future success, at least you may give the web a gift that everyone will someday enjoy. The new boss Chrome is an unqualified improvement for the web over Internet Explorer, if only in standards support and open source code. I only hope that someday we can replace it with something better than a new corporate overlord.