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Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivals(devclass.com)

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Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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What I got was that there would be no Google or Mozilla specific code/libraries, but FOSS libraries for common media formats would be included so that the project can reach a wider audience.

AFAIK They use Skia, the rendering library made by Google so this does not appear true either.

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Luci@lemmy.ca
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Well that sucks. There are so many alternatives with just as much support

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Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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I mean, to be fair, Skia appears to be good - Firefox and LibreOffice also use it for example. I believe GNOME Web will also use Skia in GNOME 47. It certainly seems that people are moving away from Cairo and into Skia. For what reason? I don’t know.

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drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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skia doesn’t actually have that many alternatives, and skia is well maintained used by a large amount of projects. and none I am aware of are nearly as mature as skia is.

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