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Comment by namanyayg | Hacker News Reader

I was excited about these but turns out most of them don't work on Firefox Mobile for me.

That doesn't stop you using them. 'responsive design' and 'progressive enhancement' are about delivering the best possible experience for the user using the capabilities of their device. That means not giving everyone the same experience. Make it better where you can.

I would honestly rather not make any user's Chrome experience better than Firefox given the curtent marketshares. It would not feel ethical to me to partake in helping Google seize more power on browsers.

In my experience, it's Chrome that usually lags behind in implementing new standardized features (subgrid, for example).

I’m primarily a safari user but spent a few months with Firefox and Brave and now recently with Arc. I always feel like whichever rendering engine I’m not using atm is lagging so far behind.

To me that means realistically there’s probably a pretty healthy amount of technical competition in the industry, and just too much for any one team to tackle.

I do think safari takes a little bit too much heat though (but I’m biased :D)

Modern-day IE does need some heat though.

On Android? You must be on an ancient version then. All of these things—except for the new `word-wrap: pretty` property value—are supported in Firefox for Android.

"text-wrap: balance;" works, only "pretty" is not yet supported

Huh? Which ones? I also use Firefox Mobile and they all seem to work.

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