#Apple is no better than #Google at stewarding the #openWeb. #Mozilla has abundantly shown in the last years that they are just controlled opposition, and the amount of their allegedly restricted resources they waste on invasive features nobody wants shows that they can't be trusted in any way to defend the users' interest. Currently, their only redeeming quality is that they haven't removed support for uBlock Origin and other #adblockers from their browsers —a meager point.
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I haven't head from any @servo developers about their stance about XML support. I would like to know what they think about it. Currently their engine has no support for XSLT, and I would like to know if they intend to keep it that way, or they plan to introduce support for it.
I think it's time for another browser war, this time not as corporation vs corporation, but users vs corporate control. Who are our champions? Not @Vivaldi or any other Blink or WebKit browser, for sure, unless they take it upon themselves to fork off the engines to preserve these features. The Firefox forks, perhaps? That landscape is currently a constellation of fragmented projects: is there anything documenting the difference between @palemoon @librewolf or @Waterfox and how many others?
I appreciate that part of the #indieWeb is “running away” from the corporate controlled web in #GeminiSpace, and there are some very interesting idea being developed around there. There's something to be said about not wanting to share your environment with the poison that a large part of the web has become, but at the same time, there's also something to be said about throwing away the baby with the bathwater. The problem with the web isn't technical, it's social. The tech itself is fine.
(I don't dislike gemtext. And I love the idea of a web built on lightweight markup. I would love it if user agents had native support for plain formats like markdown or asciidoc. I even like the #GeminiProtocol. And I see no reason why you shouldn't ship text/gemini over HTTP or HTML over Gemini.)
This, by the way, is part of the same rant. There is absolutely nothing preventing, say, #Firefox from adding support for the #GeminiProtocol and for the gemtext format. It would have been a better time investment for their engineers than the time they wasted adding integration with #LLM chatbots that people now have to waste their time disabling (or removing from the code).
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