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Developers were to blame last time too, IE6 was better than everything else and had all the market share so developers didn't target anything else.
by amaranth 9y ago
Developers were to blame last time too, IE6 was better than everything else and had all the market share so developers didn't target anything else.
- scaryclam 9y agoIt kind of feels we've gone around in the full circle now. Why on earth we can't learn from the mistakes made last time I don't know. It wasn't that long ago. It saddens me when I hear "but it's different this time" because, no, it really isn't. Keep with web standards (real web standards, not pseudo-standards from a large corporation) and make sure your stuff works in at least a basic way in all browsers that your users may need (seriously, not everyone can update to even a browser 2 years old, never mind the nightly bleeding edge build, due to company policies, so stop coding for that please).
- Sylos 9y agoBecause there's no dynamic to keep things in check. It's natural that one browser has more market share for one reason or another, which results in webpage owners looking out more for things functioning in that browser properly, which in turn leads to more users using that browser. Same reason why the operating system market and the processor architecture market have virtually no competition and an objectively terrible product in a leading position.