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There are two major browser engine lineages but at least four of 'major' browsers (>5% market share) and a number of minor browsers.

eviks 2y ago
5% is minor, not major.
- mort96 2y ago
  Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used "major browser" to exclude WiP and hobby project to avoid pedants coming in and saying "uh Ladybird doesn't support looping gifs yet" or whatever. But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants.
  - eviks 2y ago
    You've missed both points: - the 5% point you're responding to doesn't refer to the original "Every major browser" - the original reponse just highlights that there is no non-pedantic difference between "most browsers" and "Every major browser", so that was the start of the anti-pedantism battle
    - mort96 2y ago
      No, this is ridiculous. The claim isn't about "most browsers" but the ones people actually use. You know, Firefox and those based on Chromium and WebKit. There could be 100 browser hobby projects out there which don't support NAB, "most browsers" would then not support NAB, but pretty much everyone would still be using a browser which supports NAB. "The major browser engines" is a commonly used phrase to refer to Chromium, WebKit and Gecko (and formerly Trident and Presto). You're willfully misudnerstanding it. Please stop. This will be my last response in this thread, this conversation is absolutely ridiculous.
      - eviks 2y ago
        > Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used "most browser" to include the major ones, it's a commonly used way of expressing it > But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants. who come up with imaginary examples like this: > There could be 100 browser hobby projects
troupo 2y ago
There are three major browser engines. Chrome derivatives cannot be counted as a separate browser (yet, or ever? remains to be seen)

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There are two major browser engine lineages but at least four of 'major' browsers (>5% market share) and a number of minor browsers.

by teruakohatu 2y ago

eviks 2y ago
5% is minor, not major.
- mort96 2y ago
  Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used "major browser" to exclude WiP and hobby project to avoid pedants coming in and saying "uh Ladybird doesn't support looping gifs yet" or whatever. But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants.
  - eviks 2y ago
    You've missed both points: - the 5% point you're responding to doesn't refer to the original "Every major browser" - the original reponse just highlights that there is no non-pedantic difference between "most browsers" and "Every major browser", so that was the start of the anti-pedantism battle
    - mort96 2y ago
      No, this is ridiculous. The claim isn't about "most browsers" but the ones people actually use. You know, Firefox and those based on Chromium and WebKit. There could be 100 browser hobby projects out there which don't support NAB, "most browsers" would then not support NAB, but pretty much everyone would still be using a browser which supports NAB. "The major browser engines" is a commonly used phrase to refer to Chromium, WebKit and Gecko (and formerly Trident and Presto). You're willfully misudnerstanding it. Please stop. This will be my last response in this thread, this conversation is absolutely ridiculous.
      - eviks 2y ago
        > Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used "most browser" to include the major ones, it's a commonly used way of expressing it > But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants. who come up with imaginary examples like this: > There could be 100 browser hobby projects
troupo 2y ago
There are three major browser engines. Chrome derivatives cannot be counted as a separate browser (yet, or ever? remains to be seen)