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I wish the evergreen browsers would ease back on the pace of releases. Most sites and apps can’t use bleeding edge features in production anyway for a variety o
by Chris_Newton 6y ago
I wish the evergreen browsers would ease back on the pace of releases. Most sites and apps can’t use bleeding edge features in production anyway for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is low quality of implementation, for example if a feature is supported in theory but the rendering looks awful in one or more major browsers when it’s used in practice. Another is inconsistent implementation across browsers that need to be supported. Both of these areas have suffered noticeably in the modern era of rolling updates and the dubious concept of “living standards”. With the increasing significance of the web as an application platform and not just a medium for content delivery, developers need stability and clear specifications or the quality and longevity of their own products will inevitably suffer.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI mean, Firefox ESR works pretty well.
- Chris_Newton 6y agoBut developers need to support the browsers their audience choose to use, and as sad as it is, Firefox simply doesn’t have the market share today that it once did. Even if my amazing new web app runs perfectly in Firefox ESR, that isn’t going to help me if Chrome pushes out an update that breaks something for half my users.