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0 pointsWhyNotHugo4y ago0 comments

Chrome is just the new IE.

I've been saying this for over a decade, and facts like just continue to make this clear.

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recursive4y ago· 2 in thread

I've been hearing this for the last decade also. I wonder if those saying it were around for the dominance of IE. Chrome is like the opposite of IE. IE didn't ship an update for like 6 years. Chrome ships updates every ~6 weeks.

timw4mail4y ago

It updates too often, introducing yet more APIs that will be "deprecated" and re-implemented, forcing yet more incompatabilites.

recursive4y ago

If you use the standardized ones, you won't have much to worry about. That wasn't the case with IE.

treis4y ago

Except that chromium is open source. Plenty of alternate browsers exist and at least one has big backing (Edge).

It's not a bad thing for there to be only one HTML & JavaScript engine that you have to deal with. In fact it's the opposite. The dominance of Chrome has made development much easier.

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