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I'm just really uncomfortable with a "chrome version" of the New York Times. How many of us would be freaking out if it was "The New York Times: Internet Explor
by cjoh 16y ago
I'm just really uncomfortable with a "chrome version" of the New York Times. How many of us would be freaking out if it was "The New York Times: Internet Explorer Version"
I don't want versions of the web. That's the whole point of the web.
- corin_ 16y agoCompletely agree, but to play devil's advocate: maybe they're catering to the OS (in which case it's closer to a "The New York Times: iPad Edition" than your IE example).
- angrycoder 16y agoNothing is stopping you from just going to www.newyorktimes.com in the browser of your choosing. HTML5 is still very much the wild west. Browser specific versions of a site have been common ever since there was more than one browser. Unless you want everyone to just code their UI to the lowest common denominator, in which case, the whole web would look like geocities circa 1998.
- yanw 16y agoThey stated numerous times during the announcement that these apps will work on all modern browsers, the web store is there to help discovery and monetization. The Chrome label on this NYT app is merely promotional as they were launch partners.
- ootachi 16y agoThere are -webkit- prefixes everywhere in the CSS. This isn't a cross-browser site.
- lhnz 16y agoEver heard of graceful degradation?
- hungryfoolish 16y agoGracefull degradation is for making sites work on older browsers. What about making sites work on modern browsers which are other than your favourite one? Using just -webkit prefixes everywhere will make sure it just plays nicely with webkit, and not with IE, Opera or Firefox.
- krainboltgreene 16y agoIt detects your rendering engine when you connect to the server and only serves up the relevent stylesheet. This way you don't get -moz, -o, or IE fixes if you're not on IE, Mozilla, or Opera. Save bandwidth, load time.
- cwp 16y agoI just tried it in Firefox, and it works fine. AFAICT, it's identical to what you see in Chrome... except it has -moz- prefixes everywhere in the CSS. :-p
- sp332 16y agoThey use -webkit- to ensure that, when the relevant standards are finalized, the namespace isn't polluted by experimental and development mistakes.