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Being portable and cross-platform doesn't mean you can't take advantage of things unique to a subset of platforms to provide a better user experience on those p

by tssva 6y ago

Being portable and cross-platform doesn't mean you can't take advantage of things unique to a subset of platforms to provide a better user experience on those platforms. You just need to check for support and provide fallback on those platforms without support. One could easily argue that just using the lowest common denominator across platforms is in fact the lazy and/or incompetent option. Also you mentioned in another comment there being 2 browser-engines. There are in fact 3 major browser-engines.

josteink 6y ago
> Also you mentioned in another comment there being 2 browser-engines. There are in fact 3 major browser-engines. Fair enough. I was thinking in terms of browser-engine families (WebKit-based, Gecko-based) and tried to keep things simple, because I didn't want to overcomplicate my comment. You're right though that there's Google WebKit (Blink) and straight WebKit and that does make a difference which matters in this context.