Google Docs in a clean-room browser – Ekioh
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Front-end has gotten ridiculous these days with an oligopoly of 3 or so engines - and on many sites you get an unusable page if you happen to have a 2-3 year old release of a popular browser!
People are onto something when they call Google Chrome to be "weaponizing the change" in the new browser wars. Ever-changing standards that cost months of effort to implement, and not improve the browsing experience in a meaningful way.
Some of the things they implement are non-standard too, like the File API's used in Mega's web UI.
I have some serious problems with Chromium / Google in general though. Interventions are a terrible idea: they promote nonstandard features and encourage web developers to make some Chrome-specific hacks to keep the website working for the majority of people.
I think there was some controversy with the scroll event intervention quite a while back, too.