A few days ago, Huawei was on a hot search again.
The reason is that some media have sent such a message: Huawei wants to develop its own browser kernel and make a browser that really belongs to Chinese.
So as soon as the news came out, there were many friends in the comment area clapping their hands and applauding:
Now the browser kernel is foreign, we have no right to speak, look forward to Huawei to break the monopoly!
Because the current Huawei browser, like the browsers of Tencent, Sogou, 360 and other manufacturers, is based on the open source project of Google Chrome browser - Chromium.
If Huawei decides to start its own research from the bottom, it is indeed equivalent to filling a gap in the industry.
But to be honest, my first reaction when I saw this message was:
There is no need, as long as Huawei is not stupid, he will not do this. ( Why do you say that, let's talk later )
Sure enough, soon this news was picked up to the source by everyone.
It turned out that at a symposium, the "senior manager" of Huawei browser revealed that in two years we can see a better Huawei browser.
This "better" ah, can be better in many ways, such as can become a better UI, can support third-party extensions, add more useful features and so on.
But it does not necessarily correspond to Huawei's self-developed browser kernel, nor does it mean that Huawei intends to develop its own browser kernel in two years.
Although the second paragraph of the original blog is related to some "mainstream browser kernel" related content, but the clear-eyed people can find out at a glance:
The Trident and Presto, two layout engines built into the IE and Opera browsers mentioned inside, respectively, have been dead for an unknown number of years.
Firefox also upgraded its built-in typography engine from Gecko to Quantum as early as 2017.
Safari's Webkit typography engine was also misspelled as Webkiticon.
As for the Blink engine used by Google Chrome, the largest market share, it is simply not mentioned.
To be reasonable, although I was not present at this symposium, if the "senior manager" of Huawei Browser could personally say the same thing as the sieve...
I don't quite believe it. ( It is estimated that the blogger's own "supplementary information" is posted )
However, it is such a tweet that gradually becomes:
" Decided to self-research " " is self-research " " self-research in two years " " " will be released in two years "
The canonical canon belongs to yes.
And just now I also saw that the "sources" on the Huawei side made a rumor today through several media.
It's a close to the matter.
I'm not, I'm not, don't talk about it
So... So far, this matter is over.
However, I believe that at this time, there must be some friends who are pondering the sentence I said earlier:
Why is there no need for Huawei's self-developed browser, do you want to see us being strangled by foreign countries when the time comes?
Well, before saying this, the bad reviewer wants to ask the big guys, I don't know if you remember one thing that was often taken out by the "public knowers" in those years:
China can't produce ballpoint pen heads.
This matter has now been told as a joke by everyone, and it is estimated that many bad friends know it.
Probably means that the ballpoint nib used to be purely dependent on imports, and it cost more than 100 million yuan per year.
So some people took this and said that our technology was not good, and we were stuck in the neck.
But in fact, if we want to do it, we can also do it, but the economic benefits cannot be crossed, and the daily output is enough for one year, compared to the original trillion-level steel production...
It's a loss, it can't be crossed.
Similarly, the self-developed browser kernel is actually equivalent to the self-developed ballpoint nib: yes, but not necessarily.
And it doesn't make money.
Let's think so - can Huawei really not make a self-developed browser kernel?
Just kidding, Huawei itself started with network equipment, and now the field of expertise of 100,000 small R&D personnel is spanning the software and hardware ecology.
Hongmeng can show you the whole thing, if Huawei wants to develop its own browser kernel, draw 2,000 senior engineers out, and set up a military order.
Don't say two years, after six months can't rub out my loss.
But what's the point?
First of all, we must know that the essence of the browser is a tool for browsing the web.
And every web page we visit is essentially a bunch of hypertext tags made up of plain text.
The role of the browser is to use the built-in browser kernel , the "typography engine" and the "JavaScript engine" – to render text markup into beautiful web pages.
Just like the input method, you enter the Computer into the English "cha'ping", but it can give you a "bad review" that can be parsed into Chinese characters.
And browsers do a lot like input methods: you have to interpret the text markup of the original web page according to the conventions (W3C).
Can't play blind jill by himself, and explain it as much as he wants.
Otherwise, the web pages that people browser users see are normal, and the layout of your browser is not correct, who still uses you?
So even if thousands of Huawei engineers write a brand new browser kernel from scratch, they will do the same thing as all the browser kernels do now...
Exactly the same.
It also has to put in billions of R&D, maintenance and publicity costs.
And... The browser kernel itself does not have any confidentiality attributes.
Whether it's Google's Blink/V8 engine or Firefox's Quantum/SpiderMonkey engine, they're all completely open source.
Each line of source code is publicly available, and sets of development learning materials are sent.
Therefore, as strong as Microsoft, it also gave up its self-developed browser kernel three years ago and changed to a Chromium open source project based on Google Chrome to build its own browser.
Not only save R & D funds, users also like to use.
In other words, the browser kernel is like a dictionary, it is essentially public, there is no secret.
And the interpretation is unique and conventional.
Building a browser kernel from scratch is like saying that someone else has already written a dictionary and doesn't want money.
I said no, I'm going to spend another two billion to write another one with example sentences I've made myself.
No matter how thick our family is, we can't lie like this!
Now you know why I said, "If Huawei wasn't stupid, it wouldn't be doing this."
Indeed, in the past two years, we have found that in the technology industry, we still have some shortcomings.
For example, such as EDA, lithography machine, instruction set architecture ecology, and so on.
Therefore, a number of enterprises, including Huawei, have also been working in these directions in the past two years to make up for shortcomings.
But some of the places we think are short boards, in fact, they are the same as the ballpoint pen heads of that year.
It's not that you don't do it, it's really unnecessary to do it.
If billions are really spent on these things, it is true...
It's heart-wrenching.
Author: Miro Editor: Noodle Beauty Editor: Huan Yan
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