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It won't, but it will take a while (not sure about five years) for everybody to be on the latest version. Chrome has nice auto-update but not everybody has it e

It won't, but it will take a while (not sure about five years) for everybody to be on the latest version. Chrome has nice auto-update but not everybody has it enabled, for all kinds of good and bad reasons.

wongarsu 5y ago
According to statcounter.com any new Chrome version is adopted by a large majority of users within 30 days [1]. Sure, some cooperate users hold out much longer, but those seem to be a tiny minority. 1: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share
- codedokode 5y ago
  There are other browsers except for Chrome. For example there are built-in browsers in smartphones that will never be updated. It is wrong to rely on everyone using a latest version of a browser. Every site should support at least 5 years old browsers and a good site will be usable in 10 years old browser including builtin browser of Windows. Sadly, in reality most sites are made so poorly that they don't open on 5-years old smartphone. It shows how low qualified became modern web developers.
  - wongarsu 5y ago
    I agree that apps will need a fallback for a couple years. So far only Chrome and Firefox are implementing it, and given that Safari took 2.5 years for IntersectionObserver I wouldn't hold my breath until we can even claim that all major browsers implement this. But this API doesn't implement anything we couldn't do before, it's a more correct and much faster implementation of something we already have libraries for. The vast majority of users will have an almost immediate benefit from sites using this API, both in speed and security. That's what I take this comment chain to be about, since talking about "a majority" doesn't make sense otherwise. Supporting browser versions used by at most 2% of all users is the name of the game in webdev, that's what made IE so annoying.

wongarsu 5y ago

According to statcounter.com any new Chrome version is adopted by a large majority of users within 30 days [1]. Sure, some cooperate users hold out much longer, but those seem to be a tiny minority. 1: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share

codedokode 5y ago
There are other browsers except for Chrome. For example there are built-in browsers in smartphones that will never be updated. It is wrong to rely on everyone using a latest version of a browser. Every site should support at least 5 years old browsers and a good site will be usable in 10 years old browser including builtin browser of Windows. Sadly, in reality most sites are made so poorly that they don't open on 5-years old smartphone. It shows how low qualified became modern web developers.
- wongarsu 5y ago
  I agree that apps will need a fallback for a couple years. So far only Chrome and Firefox are implementing it, and given that Safari took 2.5 years for IntersectionObserver I wouldn't hold my breath until we can even claim that all major browsers implement this. But this API doesn't implement anything we couldn't do before, it's a more correct and much faster implementation of something we already have libraries for. The vast majority of users will have an almost immediate benefit from sites using this API, both in speed and security. That's what I take this comment chain to be about, since talking about "a majority" doesn't make sense otherwise. Supporting browser versions used by at most 2% of all users is the name of the game in webdev, that's what made IE so annoying.