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That's the vicious circle: 1. Google basically controls the web. 2. Whenever a new Web API shows up, browser vendors have to decide between implementing the s
by Yoric 5y ago
That's the vicious circle:
1. Google basically controls the web.
2. Whenever a new Web API shows up, browser vendors have to decide between implementing the standard and copying the bugs, exotic behaviors and extensions that are implemented in Chromium.
3. Websites are tested on Chromium, so they start to rely on Chromium's bugs, exotic behaviors and extensions.
4. When a website breaks in Firefox (or Safari), people claim that it's the fault of Firefox devs and switch to Chromium.
The early web got tired of this when it was Microsoft at the wheels, but it feels that few people are particularly interested in fighting the good fight these days. Much easier to blame Mozilla.
- 0xCMP 5y agoOn the other hand, how many of these browsers are actually building or inventing any of these new apis to support things like screensharing, video, audio, and etc so they're not hacks except for chrome?
- Yoric 5y agoWell, given that WebRTC was mostly invented at Mozilla, at least one.
- lousken 5y agoI can blame whoever I want, but at the end of the day, the problem that I have to deal with is the user saying - Teams doesn't work. What am I supposed to do with it?
- ymolodtsov 5y agoBecause IE was an outdated stagnating piece of garbage and Chrome is still pretty good.