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This is an inane comment. The author Alex Russell speaks for himself not his employer. He's always been outspoken on Twitter and he spends much of the article c
by feross 5y ago
This is an inane comment. The author Alex Russell speaks for himself not his employer. He's always been outspoken on Twitter and he spends much of the article criticizing Google, the place he worked at for over 12 years.
- dmitriid 5y agoYes, he's very outspoken on Twitter where he twists reality to suit his own worldview (which is almost invariably "Safari bad, put Chrome on iOS") and he completely ignores the realities that are: - So many APIs he raves about are considered harmful by both Safari and Firefox: https://webapicontroversy.com/ https://webapicontroversy.com/ - Chrome is blatantly ignoring all input and forces poorly specified internal Chrome APIs onto the world under the guise of "standards" But sure. "He's outspoken on Twitter" should really absolve him and any criticism of what he writes is "inane".
- torartc 5y agoI don't typically agree with Russle on most things, but Safari is in fact bad.
- dmitriid 5y agoSafari is, in fact, fine. The "Safari bad" argument comes from people who are keen on turning the Web into something it can never be: an app platform. I very very very much prefer the "bad Safari" to the shiny Chrome which pushes (and ships) "standards" so bad other browser developers can't even understand them [1] [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459 Edit: grammar and typos
- enos_feedler 5y agowell it seemed a bit funny that he used to bash apple while he worked at google and now that he works at microsoft he bashes both apple and google. in all cases he leaves his current employer out of the criticism.
- ksec 5y agoI guess that he joined Google because he is pissed with Apple and joined Microsoft because he is pissed with Google as well.
- enos_feedler 5y agoMaybe the next step is to create a startup and bash all incumbents