[Developing a new Web browser]() is by now an endevour comparable to the Apollo missions - and probably even more complex.
There are [1191 W3C specifications and recommendations](
) out there right now (actually a bit less than the time when that article was written in 2020).
That’s about ~110M words.
Put togeter the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, [all 9580 published RFCs](), and the combined word counts of the [10 longest novels](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Massive-Tomes-10-of-the-Worlds-Longest-Novels), and you still won’t reach that many words.
Even building a fully POSIX-compliant operating system is by now 1-2 orders of magnitude less demanding than building a fully W3C-compliant #browser.
I guess that's probably why both #Google and #Mozilla feel free of enshittifying as much as they like and get away with it.
The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
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