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It was nice. As long as you weren't doing something totally inadvisable like using IE 7 or something, things generally worked fine. Blink, Gecko, WebKit, whatev
by jwells89 2y ago
It was nice. As long as you weren't doing something totally inadvisable like using IE 7 or something, things generally worked fine. Blink, Gecko, WebKit, whatever. Even random tiny FOSS browser projects wrapping somewhat outdated builds of WebKit or Gecko worked ok the majority of the time as long as you spoofed the user agent string of one of the big guys.
- wwweston 2y agoPeople put serious effort into even IE compat for a while. AFAICT the beginning of the end came with trying to do battle with mobile browsers; you simply couldn’t debug all the potential problems well enough. I remember burning a month on a regression that affected only iOS before Apple fixed it. Of course people were going to eventually pick an easy standards based target and tell everyone else to pray.