Browsers are complex because their job is to parse and render an enormous number of documents that conform poorly to a collection of overly permissive specs in a manner that won’t disappoint people used to having those documents render correctly despite being buggy.
I wonder how the quip about web browsers being bloated relates to the servo project.
Starts reading the servo source code.
Because it’s also just bugs.
Browsers are complex because their job is to parse and render an enormous number of documents that conform poorly to a collection of overly permissive specs in a manner that won’t disappoint people used to having those documents render correctly despite being buggy.