*The majority of developers are “shitty”* The colossal pain of “you must use IE” was caused by: * Sites designed in IE, and thus having unusually munched layo

*The majority of developers are “shitty”* The colossal pain of “you must use IE” was caused by: * Sites designed in IE, and thus having unusually munched layout in anything else. E.g. the “standard” is whatever their browser is. * Sites that just gated access on a useragent check (which the above sites were doing, and mercifully was bypassable) Using activex stuff was a problem, and for some super important platforms of the era it was the reason for IE only. The web didn’t become “you must use IE” because of a few bad developers, it became IE only because the majority of developers designed only for the majority of their users. The result was the web filled with sites that didn’t work in other browsers. So, developers already think it’s acceptable to only develop for chrome and preface their site with a “this site is designed for IE” dialog. The developers doing this are not small time firms. Chromes dominance of the browser market shows that google can make people change their default browser. Because google controls a large number of the biggest, and for many, critical, web properties. If that site doesn’t give you features unless you use chrome, or it just flat rejects non-chrome browsers, people will change their defaults. We have the existence proof in two forms: Chromes total dominance of the browser market, and the insane speed of IE6 dying when they stopped supporting it on YouTube and GMail.