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IDK, I worked at Google for a long time and the people who cared about browser compatibility by far the most were the Chrome and Workspace teams. The Chrome tea

IDK, I worked at Google for a long time and the people who cared about browser compatibility by far the most were the Chrome and Workspace teams. The Chrome team tried to emphasis that it made it very hard to negotiate web standards and made them look bad if Google had Chrome-only properties and Workspace wanted browser compatibility because they needed to officially support browsers that their customers were mandated to use (but they didn't really care about the long tail of browsers).

meerita 4y ago
Google's homepage is probably the most extreme example ever made for browser compatibility.
- kevincox 4y ago
  Only if compatibility means "at least some functionality". Anything but latest Chrome, Safari or desktop Firefox gets a super basic version even though there appears to be no technical rationale. Just "it is too hard to test this on all of those browsers". Just faking the QA string gets you a working "chrome" experience.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    What functionality is missing? Is it anything that people actually care about? I did a search from Internet Explorer in Mac OS 9 a couple of years ago. I put in a term and a list of results came up. That's really all I could ask for.
    - z_open 4y ago
      If I look up lyrics to a song that's in a different language it will display the lyrics, but only chrome will offer the ability to click a button and translate.
- DeathArrow 4y ago
  Every time I visit Google with another browser I see a big pop-up which asks me to switch to Chrome.
  - meerita 4y ago
    That's marketing, not browser compatibility :)