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Developers should do at least some testing in every reasonably popular browser engine.
by Zak 2y ago
Developers should do at least some testing in every reasonably popular browser engine.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI feel like that's true only because we have a culture of making needlessly complex websites on the level of OS drivers, mostly to artificially grab attention due to the sickness of SEO.
- Zak 2y agoHow am I supposed to break the back button, "improve" scrolling, and make links you can't open in a new tab without at least 5mb of Javascript?
- vouaobrasil 2y agoHahah. Don't forget paywalls. More websites should have those.
- ralegh 2y agoWeb browsers could have 1/10th of the features, basically enough for markdown, forms, forums, displaying media, and minimal styling.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoYes, and that would be enough to make a useful internet. Unfortunately, out of control capitalistic tendencies push for maximum features for no real benefit at all.
- dewey 2y agoWhy would you need a whole Ungoogled Chrome project for testing and not doing any "real" browsing?
- red-iron-pine 2y agoagree. but why wouldn't you just use stock chrome? even if you're doing something sensitive it's not hard to block dataflows to the GOOG, and in all likelihood it doesn't matter for most testing.
- Zak 2y agoOne could just as easily ask the inverse: why not use Ungoogled Chromium when it's readily available and easy to install? I can't speak for anyone else, but I favor things that are more removed from big tech.
- morcus 2y agoIn the context of testing, the "why not" is obviously because most of the users are using Google Chrome and not Ungoogled Chromium.