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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? I'm trying to look for donors but don't really find anything.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Starts about midway down their page at ladybird.org

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How could I have missed that, lol. Thanks.

Anyways, I don't think it's too weird. It might even be to simply have their name up there. We'll have to see.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I read somewhere awhile back their platinum donors gave a certain tier (10k or 100k or whatever it was). To be clear I'm more than open to being surprised here, I want Ladybird to succeed. I just resent Shopify being involved in any way, I'm a little bit petty after slogging it out at that company awhile because I know what they're all about.