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As long as chrome, safari, firefox and opera stick together, the web will move foreward.
by Kilimanjaro 14y ago
As long as chrome, safari, firefox and opera stick together, the web will move foreward.
- chimeracoder 14y agoWebkit is already a dominant rendering engine (36% plurality share) used on multiple platforms. Ignoring IE, which has historical problems of its own, Firefox is the only popular browser that doesn't rely on Webkit. Take a look at this graph, and mentally add Chrome, Safari, and 'Mobile': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browsers_(Source_StatCounter).svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browser... While Webkit has advantages, and while I happily use Chrome for most purposes, I dislike the idea that a single implementation can become the de facto standard for proper rendering, perhaps even more so than the official spec. 1995 was almost twenty years ago. Not ten minutes ago, I tried to use a website which told me it required IE 6.0+ or Firefox. Do we really want to move to the days where websites will boast a 'Best viewed with Webkit' button?
- ricardobeat 14y agoWhy would you ignore IE in this context? There are four engines in use, each with millions of users. WebKit is only way ahead in mobile, but it's only going to lose share from now on.
- sbuk 14y agoGonna have to bite; why?