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> Like Firefox, GeckoView offers excellent support for modern Web standards. I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent", but I'm still waiting on E

> Like Firefox, GeckoView offers excellent support for modern Web standards. I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent", but I'm still waiting on ES2018's regex lookbehind assertions to be implemented.

jraph 6y ago
What about support for CSS list-style-type: '-'? Happy to discover that it is finally supported since Chrome 79, released on the December 10, 2019. Supported on Firefox since version 39, released on July 2, 2015. And what about Flex-box's safe value for the justify-content property, allowing to justify (center) an element, but still be sure that the left side of the content will not be hidden if the parent container is too small? Right, supported on Firefox since version 63 released on October 23, 2018 and still not supported on Chrome (and to add insult to injury, safe is recognized, it just does nothing, which is worse than really not supporting the feature). I didn't look for these missing features on purpose, I have been annoyed by them recently or less recently. So as for Chrome's excellent support for modern Web standard, I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent". Or more accurately, you can find lacking support for some features of the Web standard in any browser engine. :-)
- fabiospampinato 6y ago
  I do agree with you, but also I don't think that when judging whether Firefox's support of web standards is "excellent" it matters one bit what other browsers are doing. Like excellence isn't a relative measure here.
  - jraph 6y ago
    Oh, well, it literally depends on what you pick as a definition for "excellent" in a way I hadn't considered then :-) Food for thought however: what is implemented elsewhere may be an indicator of was level of excellence is achievable.
    - fabiospampinato 6y ago
      Yeah, that's why I prefaced my comment with: 'I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent"'. What others can do is an indication of what is achievable only if what they do is optimal, like let's say for example that a monkey learns 10 words in a planet full of comparable monkeys and things less capable than that, does that environment make the monkey excellent in general as far as learning words goes? I don't think so. I would argue excellence in this sense is to be measured in the scale of what's possible, not as a comparative measure that changes depending on the environment. In this case in particular I wouldn't consider lacking features spec'ed 2 years ago excellence, your mileage may vary.
- bzb3 6y ago
  Chrome is the baseline here, so you have it backwards.
KwanEsq 6y ago
Looks like they'll be enabled in Nightly for testing in the 78 cycle: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135
- fabiospampinato 6y ago
  That's awesome, thanks for letting me know about it!

jraph 6y ago

What about support for CSS list-style-type: '-'? Happy to discover that it is finally supported since Chrome 79, released on the December 10, 2019. Supported on Firefox since version 39, released on July 2, 2015. And what about Flex-box's safe value for the justify-content property, allowing to justify (center) an element, but still be sure that the left side of the content will not be hidden if the parent container is too small? Right, supported on Firefox since version 63 released on October 23, 2018 and still not supported on Chrome (and to add insult to injury, safe is recognized, it just does nothing, which is worse than really not supporting the feature). I didn't look for these missing features on purpose, I have been annoyed by them recently or less recently. So as for Chrome's excellent support for modern Web standard, I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent". Or more accurately, you can find lacking support for some features of the Web standard in any browser engine. :-)

fabiospampinato 6y ago
I do agree with you, but also I don't think that when judging whether Firefox's support of web standards is "excellent" it matters one bit what other browsers are doing. Like excellence isn't a relative measure here.
- jraph 6y ago
  Oh, well, it literally depends on what you pick as a definition for "excellent" in a way I hadn't considered then :-) Food for thought however: what is implemented elsewhere may be an indicator of was level of excellence is achievable.
  - fabiospampinato 6y ago
    Yeah, that's why I prefaced my comment with: 'I guess it depends on one's definition of "excellent"'. What others can do is an indication of what is achievable only if what they do is optimal, like let's say for example that a monkey learns 10 words in a planet full of comparable monkeys and things less capable than that, does that environment make the monkey excellent in general as far as learning words goes? I don't think so. I would argue excellence in this sense is to be measured in the scale of what's possible, not as a comparative measure that changes depending on the environment. In this case in particular I wouldn't consider lacking features spec'ed 2 years ago excellence, your mileage may vary.
bzb3 6y ago
Chrome is the baseline here, so you have it backwards.

KwanEsq 6y ago

Looks like they'll be enabled in Nightly for testing in the 78 cycle: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135

fabiospampinato 6y ago
That's awesome, thanks for letting me know about it!