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Chrome is the opposite of IE. IE was dragging the rest of the web behind with its glacial update pace and lack of automatic updates. Chrome moves at light speed
by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Chrome is the opposite of IE. IE was dragging the rest of the web behind with its glacial update pace and lack of automatic updates. Chrome moves at light speed meaning no one else can actually keep up with all the new features getting added. Chrome has resulted in browsers being more complex than an OS.
- userbinator 6y agoAgreed 100%, and IMHO it was a good thing that IE "was dragging the rest of the web behind", because it at least gave some stability to the platform and gave the small competitor browsers a chance, while keeping sites relatively simple. In contrast, Google's "pushing the web forward" propaganda and the explosion of complexity and churn that has basically become a cancerous growth is much worse.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoMost of the time it doesn't actually matter that your browser is missing support for webusb or webwhatever but every now and then you hit a site that uses it and it creates a user experience of "Just use chrome and it always works" A good demo is Mozilla spent about 7 years and 43,000 commits on Servo which is JUST a rendering engine and not any of the JS apis and it still doesn't actually work well enough to render most sites.