I think that as web developers we have the responsibility to consider the health of the entire ecosystem, as well as long term consequences. If not us, then who?
Have you worked with Edge/IE? The pain starts with, as a Mac user, having to boot up a VM and ends with the, in my opinion, horrible development tools compared to Chrome or even Firefox. In this state Edge will never be more than an afterthought.
Only IE, Chrome and FF and their mobile versions are relevant on my daily workflow when working on web projects.
Then I get hold of one of our pool Macs and iDevices and check Safari for a few hours.
So are you a developer, or a Mac user? Do you develop for Mac users, or users?
I'm all for being idealistic, but you can't expect developers to use a software that lacks in performance, features and security. I'm talking about Firefox by the way, because if you really
>consider the health of the entire ecosystem, as well as long term consequences
that is the obvious choice, not Edge.
This has been especially evident on some Google properties like Google Docs, or the incident where Inbox couldn't support Firefox because it implemented a function correctly where Chrome didn't.
That said, I hardly notice any performance difference on most sites, and IMHO Firefox behaves much better with a large amount of tabs. Security is the main issue, but Firefox sandboxing is starting to roll out.
[1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/06/17/building-a-mo...
We still have new browsers popping up, like Brave and Vivaldi. We still have Firefox, which is decent.
I don't understand what your concern is in this context.
That time would be better spent elsewhere.
(Note that Brave doesn't have its own engine, it's Chromium. Unsure about Vivaldi - is it Blink based or Presto based?)
