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Comment by matheusmoreira | Hacker News Reader

The browser wars have not ended though... Chrome simply replaced IE6. We are in the exact same situation as before: the web is effectively owned by a single corporation.

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I am old enough to remember banks and many sites shovelling windows to your mouth because they only work in IE. No, Chrome is not the same.

At work I have to use web applications that literally do not work in any non-Chrome browser on a daily basis. Nothing has changed.

Except Chrome itself is open-source, cross platform and runs almost everywhere, not to mention multiple forks and other browser implementations around it.

I am also old enough. It’s very similar, lots of things don’t work on Firefox on Safari and mandate Chrome.

The base OS is far less relevant than it used to be, so it’s far less relevant that Chrome is merely an inner OS.

The IE6 age was much worse. IE6 only worked on Windows so many sites did not work on Mac or Unix which was a big hiderence for the adoption of non-windows platforms.

While Chrome is big, Safari still has significant market share today.

Not really, IE6 legacy was split in 2, Safari is the one that don't implement modern Web APIs, some times going with alternative implementations that benefits only them.

"Modern Web APIs" are just what Chrome is doing. They even usurped the standards bodies with their "WHATWG". It's what Microsoft wishes it had achieved back then.

Just give me WebGPU, proper PWAs and the FileSystem API mate, I don't care if what the users want was proposed by Google. Maybe the bluetooth and NFC APIs too, if that would not disrupt their App Store too much :)

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