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>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by

>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by only developing for Chrome. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want a web (de-facto) controlled by a giant ad company.

likecarter 4y ago
Chromium is open source and is adopted by Microsoft via Edge. So if Google stops working on it, I'm sure MS will take up development. I think one standard is better for developers, but maybe not for diversity.
darknavi 4y ago
Just migrated to Firefox from Edge Chromium last night. I know it will "burn" me one day but having the first one being Snapchat for Web makes me feel a little good.
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sph 4y ago
IE was forced upon us by Microsoft, the biggest OS vendor. It was good to hate it and MS. Chrome is forced upon us by the same developers that frequent this forum. Chrome is bad, but webdevs that keep developing Chrome only sites should get the biggest share of the blame. At the risk of getting downvoted by the Chrome fans, shame on you for pushing forward the Google agenda and its monopoly over the Internet. I guess testing on Firefox or Safari is oh just so hard.
- dylan604 4y ago
  >I guess testing on Firefox or Safari is oh just so hard. I'd be willing to stipulate that the testing isn't hard. It's the fixing of the quirks when they arise that is the hard part.
  - sph 4y ago
    Quirks? These days quirks are few and far between, especially with Firefox. It's not the IE6 era anymore.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      No, it's the Chrome 72 era
- zaptheimpaler 4y ago
  Business don't care. Business say PRODUC NOW 0 DAYS DEADLINE SPRINT FAST. Developer open in Chrome, LGTM, push. Dev blame dev, investor laugh in corner.
rvz 4y ago
Mozilla did nothing to stop it and they were themselves ahead at one point. They were laughing all the way to the bank with Google and years later, Mozilla was thrown under the bus and sabotaged by Google and Chrome became the dominant browser. Now Mozilla is on life support. How could Mozilla be so naive to sit on Google's money to let them propose for DRM standards, privacy violating APIs and suffocate Firefox into irrelevance? Mozilla did that to themselves for years and now they are crying. Today, Firefox has become extremely irrelevant and totally overtaken by the Chromium derivatives and Safari. The best part is that the users do not care and companies like Snap will favour the most used browser and that is Chrome. That there is the hard fact of the matter and the web just went from one behemoth (Microsoft) to another (Google). As long as those companies are sitting on the W3C dictating the direction of these web standards, the so called 'open web' is a myth.
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likecarter 4y ago

Chromium is open source and is adopted by Microsoft via Edge. So if Google stops working on it, I'm sure MS will take up development. I think one standard is better for developers, but maybe not for diversity.

darknavi 4y ago

Just migrated to Firefox from Edge Chromium last night. I know it will "burn" me one day but having the first one being Snapchat for Web makes me feel a little good.

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sph 4y ago

IE was forced upon us by Microsoft, the biggest OS vendor. It was good to hate it and MS. Chrome is forced upon us by the same developers that frequent this forum. Chrome is bad, but webdevs that keep developing Chrome only sites should get the biggest share of the blame. At the risk of getting downvoted by the Chrome fans, shame on you for pushing forward the Google agenda and its monopoly over the Internet. I guess testing on Firefox or Safari is oh just so hard.

dylan604 4y ago
>I guess testing on Firefox or Safari is oh just so hard. I'd be willing to stipulate that the testing isn't hard. It's the fixing of the quirks when they arise that is the hard part.
- sph 4y ago
  Quirks? These days quirks are few and far between, especially with Firefox. It's not the IE6 era anymore.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    No, it's the Chrome 72 era
zaptheimpaler 4y ago
Business don't care. Business say PRODUC NOW 0 DAYS DEADLINE SPRINT FAST. Developer open in Chrome, LGTM, push. Dev blame dev, investor laugh in corner.

rvz 4y ago

Mozilla did nothing to stop it and they were themselves ahead at one point. They were laughing all the way to the bank with Google and years later, Mozilla was thrown under the bus and sabotaged by Google and Chrome became the dominant browser. Now Mozilla is on life support. How could Mozilla be so naive to sit on Google's money to let them propose for DRM standards, privacy violating APIs and suffocate Firefox into irrelevance? Mozilla did that to themselves for years and now they are crying. Today, Firefox has become extremely irrelevant and totally overtaken by the Chromium derivatives and Safari. The best part is that the users do not care and companies like Snap will favour the most used browser and that is Chrome. That there is the hard fact of the matter and the web just went from one behemoth (Microsoft) to another (Google). As long as those companies are sitting on the W3C dictating the direction of these web standards, the so called 'open web' is a myth.

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