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I worked on a project that a company decided to be Chrome only. This was during times when IE was still popular. We were spending a lot of time on cross browser

I worked on a project that a company decided to be Chrome only. This was during times when IE was still popular. We were spending a lot of time on cross browser compatibility and at one point the start-up didn't have money to spend on that. We picked Chrome as at the time offered best performance and it was fairly easy to make the app look as intended. We had to help some customers install Chrome and after that we had amazing velocity and we could focus on features rather than worrying why some customers can't see something etc.

zmmmmm 5y ago
This is the slippery slope we're on. You only have to get a little bit down the pathway of the dominant browser departing from standards and the cost of maintaining cross compatibility goes up exponentially. Your experience is absolutely real and it's actually the reason why we have to be vigilant not to get in that state in the first place.