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Everyone who is old enough appreciates what Firefox did for the web. But I'm not convinced that a Chromium monoculture is the same as an IE6/Trident monocultur
by Eridrus 8y ago
Everyone who is old enough appreciates what Firefox did for the web.
But I'm not convinced that a Chromium monoculture is the same as an IE6/Trident monoculture.
Largely because Chromium is open source. Apple has successfully forked it to Blink when it wasn't meeting their needs. Opera/Brave/Electron have used it as a base for their product.
So I'm left wondering what people expect will happen. Is it that the standards will no longer be relevant because people only care about one implementation?
In some sense, Microsoft decision is basically irrelevant to that because we're already there since web developers were not testing Edge, leading to compatibility challenges for the Edge team.
- pier25 8y ago> Apple has successfully forked it to Blink when it wasn't meeting their needs You mean Google?
- Eridrus 8y agoYou're right, thanks, I had thought it was the other way around. That's a slightly different narrative to what I had in my head, but I'm not sure it matters a lot, since it's basically Apple & Google not being able to agree on what to do resulting in a split.