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> It sucks that we have to do that, but I can't entirely blame them for making their own products work better on their own browser. You mean like MS for a long
by josteink 7y ago
> It sucks that we have to do that, but I can't entirely blame them for making their own products work better on their own browser.
You mean like MS for a long time did with MSIE?
Are we really back in the 90s, back to “This page works best in $one_specific_browser”?
This is not the future I was hoping for... On the flip side I can use Linux for almost anything, so i guess it’s not all bad.
- hutzlibu 7y agoWell .. consider you are back in the 90s ... would you think in general, that this is "the future you was hoping for..."?
- pjmlp 7y agoI was considering a future of native applications, connected via network protocols, with the browser being used for hypertext documents.
- copperx 7y ago> Are we really back in the 90s, back to “This page works best in $one_specific_browser”? Do webdevs really check for Chrome AND Firefox compatibility? The devs I know consider the job done as long as their site works with Chrome.
- hawkice 7y agoThis... is more fraught than you might guess. Really fiddly details can make things look goofy if you don't check.
- josteink 7y ago> Do webdevs really check for Chrome AND Firefox compatibility? The devs I know consider the job done as long as their site works with Chrome. That would technically only make them Chrome-devs.
- pjmlp 7y agoYes, because Google is a cool company, do no evil and such.