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> What I don't want to see is regulators picking winners and losers I'm not thrilled by the idea either, but I'd prefer it to another round of IE6. When it com

> What I don't want to see is regulators picking winners and losers I'm not thrilled by the idea either, but I'd prefer it to another round of IE6. When it comes to dealing with monopolies I think you're solidly in the realm of looking for the least bad choice.

cageface 6y ago
I don't think IE6 really compares to Chrome. IE6 froze the web in time and made impossible for standards to evolve. Chrome may be in danger of becoming synonymous with the web but it's hardly standing still. In fact the most common complaint is that it's adding features too quickly and trying to do too much.
- wyattpeak 6y ago
  IE6 was the most innovative browser of all until it won the race. I don't think we're at the stage yet where we can say if Chrome can be compared or not.
- nwienert 6y ago
  The features they are adding are often unnecessary and designed to help them further lock down the web, prevent ad blocking, etc. I’m surprised no ones even noticed that Portals are basically AMP Supercharged to where you’d never leave Google. Truly dystopian future they’re trying to slowly cement.
  - cageface 6y ago
    A lot of people noticed and I thought the gave a reasonable counter argument as to why this was not the case.
  - saithound 6y ago
    > The features they are adding are often unnecessary and designed to help them further lock down the web Reminds me of the Browser Wars of yesteryear, when Microsoft and Netscape invented their own unnecessary, easily abused, proprietary HTML tags, such as blink and marquee. [1] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blink-marquis-tag/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blink-marquis-tag/
    - ethbr0 6y ago
      It's easy to look backwards, with the benefit of more robust and fast (relatively!) standards bodies, and shake a finger. But my memory at the time is that there were essentially no effective, consensus-based evolutions of web standards, because everything was so new. Even the idea of running executable code in a browser at all was "That's weird. Is this a thing we want to do?" and resulted in 10+ variations (of which javascript ultimately triumphed). It was certainly a worse time for the consumer, and web developer, as essentially everything was broken on every platform but your target w/ your target plugin installs.
  - koalaman 6y ago
    examples?

cageface 6y ago

I don't think IE6 really compares to Chrome. IE6 froze the web in time and made impossible for standards to evolve. Chrome may be in danger of becoming synonymous with the web but it's hardly standing still. In fact the most common complaint is that it's adding features too quickly and trying to do too much.

wyattpeak 6y ago
IE6 was the most innovative browser of all until it won the race. I don't think we're at the stage yet where we can say if Chrome can be compared or not.
nwienert 6y ago
The features they are adding are often unnecessary and designed to help them further lock down the web, prevent ad blocking, etc. I’m surprised no ones even noticed that Portals are basically AMP Supercharged to where you’d never leave Google. Truly dystopian future they’re trying to slowly cement.
- cageface 6y ago
  A lot of people noticed and I thought the gave a reasonable counter argument as to why this was not the case.
- saithound 6y ago
  > The features they are adding are often unnecessary and designed to help them further lock down the web Reminds me of the Browser Wars of yesteryear, when Microsoft and Netscape invented their own unnecessary, easily abused, proprietary HTML tags, such as blink and marquee. [1] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blink-marquis-tag/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blink-marquis-tag/
  - ethbr0 6y ago
    It's easy to look backwards, with the benefit of more robust and fast (relatively!) standards bodies, and shake a finger. But my memory at the time is that there were essentially no effective, consensus-based evolutions of web standards, because everything was so new. Even the idea of running executable code in a browser at all was "That's weird. Is this a thing we want to do?" and resulted in 10+ variations (of which javascript ultimately triumphed). It was certainly a worse time for the consumer, and web developer, as essentially everything was broken on every platform but your target w/ your target plugin installs.
- koalaman 6y ago
  examples?