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IE6 is back, baby! All that’s left is deep integration with some proprietary Google “standard” (I’m thinking AMP) and it’ll be the early 2000s all over again.
by AlexandrB 7y ago
IE6 is back, baby! All that’s left is deep integration with some proprietary Google “standard” (I’m thinking AMP) and it’ll be the early 2000s all over again.
- DoctorOW 7y agoIt'll be like the early 2000's if switching to another browser was most likely just IE6 reskinned.
- abbracadabbra 7y agoMicrosoft Edge, which is built on Chromium, would fit this parallel nicely.
- _verandaguy 7y agoAnd brave, and vivaldi
- seabrookmx 7y agoAnd Opera.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoThere's only one competing browser engine left, Firefox's, with like 5% market share. Except if you have an Apple device, every other option is skinned Chrome.
- thewebcount 7y agoNo it isn't. It's skinned Safari which is WebKit. Chromium forked from WebKit years ago and they have diverged. And Apple certainly doesn't include all of the phone-home stuff that's in Chromium. It's not even remotely the same.
- blitmap 7y agoI'm actually looking forward to WebAssembly but I'm just imagining wasm applications tying into ChromeOS and we have ActiveX all over again.
- jcheng 7y agoWe were in WAY worse shape back then. IE6 was closed source, under-resourced (after they gained market dominance), and MS had every incentive to suppress the progress of web technologies once they ran the table. I’m not saying we shouldn’t all be rooting for the other players today and keeping a close eye on Google, just saying there is no way for Google to do nearly as much to hold back the web as MS did back then, even if they wanted to.