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"IE standards" makes no sense. Yes the big companies dominate web standards, but there are still multiple viable niche browsers that work by conforming to that
by davidy123 3y ago
"IE standards" makes no sense. Yes the big companies dominate web standards, but there are still multiple viable niche browsers that work by conforming to that spec, and an extensive spec validation framework anyone can use (web-platform-tests). It's unreasonable to say someone could come up with an IE compatible browser since there's no promise or reality of a stable design.
But you're just putting yourself out on an increasingly brittle limb to defend native apps, which imo work against user interests.
- palata 3y ago> but there are still multiple viable niche browsers that work by conforming to that spec Again, Chromium-based browsers don't count if their contribution to the codebase is marginal. Then Google implements stuff that Apple and Mozilla disagree with, and devs still rely on it (e.g. web bluetooth). Not even mentioning that Mozilla is a joke kept alive by Google for antitrust reasons.
- davidy123 3y agoFirefox is still there. There is more than Chromium based browsers. Safari uses its own engine. Gnome, KDE have their own browsers with their own engines, there are text browsers, experimental browsers, etc. There could be a completely new browser next week that works with 99.9999% of web pages, thanks to web standards. But even a Chromium based browser setting is better than some random app that could have been a web page.
- palata 3y ago> There could be a completely new browser next week that works with 99.9999% of web pages, thanks to web standards. Don't you think you are slightly underestimating the complexity of a browser that works with 99.9999% of webpages?