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Bullshit. Microsoft adopting Chromium was the single biggest boon for the open web in many years. By reducing the friction for creating powerful web apps, it cl
by moron4hire 5y ago
Bullshit. Microsoft adopting Chromium was the single biggest boon for the open web in many years. By reducing the friction for creating powerful web apps, it closes the gap for what is possible in competition with walled-garden app stores.
- kevincox 5y agoFrom my experience EdgeHTML has been "better" than Safari in terms of standard support ever since it was released. Also note that some of the holdbacks were Microsoft and Mozilla telling Google that their APIs had privacy issues. Now with Microsoft effectively blindly pulling from Chromium they basically have no means to object to these standards that Google is pushing. So while a Chomium-only web would move faster, I didn't see as EdgeHTML a major drag and the cost of Google controlling the web is far too high in my opinion.
- syshum 5y agoI guess if you consider "open Web" to be "Do what Google Demands" then sure