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>> As a web developer who has to test websites across multiple browsers, having to support another browser sounds expensive. The problem is testing M browsers
by phkahler 4y ago
>> As a web developer who has to test websites across multiple browsers, having to support another browser sounds expensive.
The problem is testing M browsers against N web sites - M*N complexity with M tests being done by each website. It should be M browsers tested against a single conformance test, and some means of testing N websites against a conformance test. The web browsers compatibility should not be your problem. Once people start accommodating non-conformists there is NO incentive for them to conform.
- iopq 4y agoThis is the biggest failure of the web as a platform. If it was extremely strict to begin with, like "display error and nothing else when website is broken" then people would actually care about standards
- 867-5309 4y agothis implies we should still be using the web like we did in the 90s. evolution happens in stages and is never perfect nor free from error
- iopq 4y agoBut web browsers are big and bloated because they have to render older websites too, like government websites that haven't been updated since the 90s