kalemoon wrote: ↑2022-07-24, 12:01
Interesting commentary, I thought that the limitation was in some lack on the part of Palemoon ...
In a way it is, but it's not exactly the fault of the web browser.
Have you ever watched one of those cartoons (or read one of those comics) where someone is riding a very slow donkey-drawn carriage and the driver dangles a carrot in front of the donkey, so that the animal would start running towards the food, speeding up the ride and adding the comedic effect of knowing that the donkey will never reach the carrot?
What is happening on the web is very similar: the donkey represents web developers, the carrot is some technology that would make web development (or just the web in general) better and the rider is big web companies (Google, Facebook, etc.)
Web developers will never reach the carrot, the supposed web utopia, but in the meantime they rushed the carriage at high-speed towards the destination decided by whover dangles the carrot.
Because of this, web developers use in their sites features that we can perfectly live without, but because they don't realize what they're doing and Pale Moon doesn't play the carrot game, websites end up breaking until Pale Moon catches up with the donkey running at full speed.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't believe
every new feature is useless, but all of the issues that popped up on this forum for the past few years do fall in this category.