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3 points·drpixie··3 comments

I can point to several important public sites that fail on all non-Chrome-based browsers. Until recently, I expected websites to work on any of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, but we seem to be looking increasingly at a google only internet. (It might not be the result of explicit behaviour by Google/Alphabet but it feel anticompetitive to me. Can you spell "antitrust" children?)

What I am not sure about is whether this is an effective push by google or more simply it is the amount of web programmers/authors going for the low hanging fruit (or with the "flow"), they simply test the site in chrome (or Edge)[1] and call it a day.

This is a pet-peeve of mine in general, web developers (and developers in general) should also test their software on low power/low memory machines with a slowish connection to verify that what they wrote is actually usable by people that do not have the latest-latest of everything.

[1] possibly the very latest release only, on the very latest OS version, on a very powerful machine, with a stupidly fast connection to the internet (that most other people won't have)

I'd go further: make it illegal for front-enders to own (a) a Mac, (b) any machine less than 8 years old.

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