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Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. Safari doesn't, so Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for

Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. Safari doesn't, so Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it.

linopolus 5y ago
Except that IE was never both faster and more battery friendly than the competition.
- ComradePhil 5y ago
  IE6/7 launch times were much faster than Firefox (this was important before SSDs were common) and general performance was better on IE. I used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though it was generally a slower browser than IE. IE was "slow" only after Chrome became a thing... which was faster than IE. Firefox wasn't. Having said that, in this context, these things don't matter at all. You can make a barebones browser which only supports HTML and CSS and get several fold improvements in battery life and performance. That is why IE was bad. It did not support newer better functionality that other browsers did.
JimDabell 5y ago
> Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. This is untrue. There are many cases where Firefox has decided not to implement something Chrome has. Here is a list of specifications that Firefox does not yet implement but has considered: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ Many of the ones listed as “harmful” are implemented by Chrome. > Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it. I’v been developing for the web for over 20 years and that’s total nonsense. There’s nothing that makes a developer stand out as inexperienced quicker than saying that Safari is the new IE. It just shows they have no conception at all about how Internet Explorer held the entire frontend development world at a standstill for five years. Safari on its worst day is nothing like Internet Explorer.

linopolus 5y ago

Except that IE was never both faster and more battery friendly than the competition.

ComradePhil 5y ago
IE6/7 launch times were much faster than Firefox (this was important before SSDs were common) and general performance was better on IE. I used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though it was generally a slower browser than IE. IE was "slow" only after Chrome became a thing... which was faster than IE. Firefox wasn't. Having said that, in this context, these things don't matter at all. You can make a barebones browser which only supports HTML and CSS and get several fold improvements in battery life and performance. That is why IE was bad. It did not support newer better functionality that other browsers did.

JimDabell 5y ago

> Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. This is untrue. There are many cases where Firefox has decided not to implement something Chrome has. Here is a list of specifications that Firefox does not yet implement but has considered: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ Many of the ones listed as “harmful” are implemented by Chrome. > Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it. I’v been developing for the web for over 20 years and that’s total nonsense. There’s nothing that makes a developer stand out as inexperienced quicker than saying that Safari is the new IE. It just shows they have no conception at all about how Internet Explorer held the entire frontend development world at a standstill for five years. Safari on its worst day is nothing like Internet Explorer.