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Ten+ years ago, we derided Microsoft for having a dominant position by bundling IE on the Windows desktop, and the resultant 'This site is best viewed in IE' ba
by Jaruzel 8y ago
Ten+ years ago, we derided Microsoft for having a dominant position by bundling IE on the Windows desktop, and the resultant 'This site is best viewed in IE' banners all over the web. As Chrome/Google are now in the same position, are we now heading for a resurrection of these banners that say 'This site best viewed in Chrome' ?
A monopoly on anything is rarely a good thing.
- solarkraft 8y agoThat's already happening. Not with banners, but notes. I could imagine them becoming more obtrusive in the future.
- npunt 8y agoI think we're probably at a mature enough point in websites-as-documents that browser compatibility won't be an issue, except in very specific more cutting edge media like 3d where they're dependent on non-standard features. However, on the apps side, there's definitely a preference for Chrome. I've noticed a couple web apps over the past few years do this, recently and most notably Coda (https://coda.io https://coda.io).
- phishfi 8y agoHow about the fact that AOL basically got entirely pushed out of the messenger business for making their messages only work on their messaging platform (this gave Trillion and others a way of including AIM in their software). Fast forward to today, where every messaging platform is proprietary, yet there's no lawsuit to force them to open their systems out to other messaging software...