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Chromium is the exact opposite of internet explorer: Internet Explorer slowed down progress by getting low human resources, chromium on the other hand has more

Chromium is the exact opposite of internet explorer: Internet Explorer slowed down progress by getting low human resources, chromium on the other hand has more human resources than any browser has ever had (especially since Microsoft joined them) and enrich the web through new features at an unprecedented pace. Internet explorer was stagnation while chromium is making the web a better platform in real-time The new IE obviously is webkit which miraculously can still run most websites,but for how long? After the mozilla lay offs, it's probable that they will slowly but surely get massive webcompat issues too

pritambaral 6y ago
The issue is not a technical one. It's political. Even in the case of IE, the issue wasn't a technical one. The issue was that MS held a monopoly on the web. They might not have abused it the same way Google is trying to today, but the specific means of abuse isn't the primary problem. Let me use your words to illustrate my point better. You said, "... chromium is making the web a better platform in real-time", but it is not "the web" that chromium is improving, but Google's private version of it.
userbinator 6y ago
You call it "stagnation", I call it "stability" --- something that seems to be ignored or even actively discouraged by a lot of these "modern" trends.
- esperent 6y ago
  I also call it stagnation. Stability suggests that you are in a good place and don't need to move on. IE was anything but a good place, in particular for the people that had to build things for it. Not all modern trends in web dev are good, but there have been many, many quality of life improvements for developers and users alike since IE finally stopped being so ubiquitously supported.
  - userbinator 6y ago
    It was definitely a much better place back then for everyone who did not have to rely on IE, since the heavy abuse of JS was not common and sites were far simpler and more content-focused as a result.
- The_rationalist 6y ago
  I guess that your brain plasticity has reached stability too? Or you're talking about stuff you actually know, you took the time to read most of the future features on https://chromestatus.com/features https://chromestatus.com/features like me and judged (unlike me) that ALL (universal quantifier) of them were a net negative to the user experience. Or I can reinterpret your sentences to means that most of them are a net negative which is still a totally absurd statement that needs to be argued. Extraordinary claims require more than ordinary evidence. Here you provided none hence my snark about conservatism which is definitely something that I will get too when I will mutate and age. A great mental exercise would be for you to look at the list and select at least one feature that should be reasonably a net negative to the user experience.

pritambaral 6y ago

The issue is not a technical one. It's political. Even in the case of IE, the issue wasn't a technical one. The issue was that MS held a monopoly on the web. They might not have abused it the same way Google is trying to today, but the specific means of abuse isn't the primary problem. Let me use your words to illustrate my point better. You said, "... chromium is making the web a better platform in real-time", but it is not "the web" that chromium is improving, but Google's private version of it.

userbinator 6y ago

You call it "stagnation", I call it "stability" --- something that seems to be ignored or even actively discouraged by a lot of these "modern" trends.

esperent 6y ago
I also call it stagnation. Stability suggests that you are in a good place and don't need to move on. IE was anything but a good place, in particular for the people that had to build things for it. Not all modern trends in web dev are good, but there have been many, many quality of life improvements for developers and users alike since IE finally stopped being so ubiquitously supported.
- userbinator 6y ago
  It was definitely a much better place back then for everyone who did not have to rely on IE, since the heavy abuse of JS was not common and sites were far simpler and more content-focused as a result.
The_rationalist 6y ago
I guess that your brain plasticity has reached stability too? Or you're talking about stuff you actually know, you took the time to read most of the future features on https://chromestatus.com/features https://chromestatus.com/features like me and judged (unlike me) that ALL (universal quantifier) of them were a net negative to the user experience. Or I can reinterpret your sentences to means that most of them are a net negative which is still a totally absurd statement that needs to be argued. Extraordinary claims require more than ordinary evidence. Here you provided none hence my snark about conservatism which is definitely something that I will get too when I will mutate and age. A great mental exercise would be for you to look at the list and select at least one feature that should be reasonably a net negative to the user experience.