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Seems that the days of "Best viewed in browser X" have come back sadly.
by boyter 8y ago
Seems that the days of "Best viewed in browser X" have come back sadly.
- Brakenshire 8y agoWhen you give a browser a 70% market share it will always start abusing its position. Same as last time.
- majani 8y agoIt's more of an OS issue here. Google doesn't view Android as a separate line of business. It's merely a moat for the search business. There's no way for an OS to be a moat for another business without abusing the OS.
- SquareWheel 8y agoMicrosoft left IE6 stagnant. They didn't "abuse their position" other than through inactivity. Google is actively involved in the standardization process, and moved Youtube over to a new API too prematurely (v0 of a spec). Now that v1 has been standardized, they're updating to that instead. These are opposite problems. Microsoft got complacent whereas Google moved too fast.
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- megaremote 8y agoFirefox will not, because they don't control youtube or google.com, or facebook or any major website. One of the reasons they are the best.
- profalseidol 8y agoHaha gov't websites and banks here in my country is still best viewed (or only works) in Internet Explorer.