Why Browsers Get Built – Infrequently Noted
March 12, 2024
There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn’t be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar. Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams.
Few if any folks are as thoughtful, or as forthright, about the realities of the Web as a platform than Alex Russell.
Here Alex reflects on why organisations might invest the genuinely enormous sums of money it takes to deliver a world class browser and why implications this has for the Web, its users and developers.
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