> I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.
True. But if the web did not adopt those features, then you would have to install more native applications to fill the void.
If you make a simpler web browser, one that is doable by a newcomer, with the subset of features that you deem appropriate for the web, nothing is stopping you. You could still visit most websites that are content only. But for some of the web applications you would have to install the native version of those applications to fill the void.
Either way you have the same outcome. You have a simple web browser that can be made by newcomers, but you have this other application platform (Windows, Mac, Android, Linux) where "the complexity is obscene, the creation of a new operating system would be comparable to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project."
True. But if the web did not adopt those features, then you would have to install more native applications to fill the void.
If you make a simpler web browser, one that is doable by a newcomer, with the subset of features that you deem appropriate for the web, nothing is stopping you. You could still visit most websites that are content only. But for some of the web applications you would have to install the native version of those applications to fill the void.
Either way you have the same outcome. You have a simple web browser that can be made by newcomers, but you have this other application platform (Windows, Mac, Android, Linux) where "the complexity is obscene, the creation of a new operating system would be comparable to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project."