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Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI 2014-09-01 11:45

Benchmarked the parser against Chrome and... it's ~50% faster. I wasn't even optimising for speed, only size (it is at least an order of magnitude smaller than WebKit's.) If I wanted to, I could probably embiggen it slightly and make it a lot faster, but I won't do that. Takes <16ms to parse this page...

http://i59.tinypic.com/uliti.png

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