Why are all web browsers so bad?
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> The fact web browser technology are mostly the same across browsers is great for developers, but users never cared: because the market leading web browser defined the technologies people could use. And the people using the market leading web browser were unaware of the compromises other web browsers used.
What is being said here? That respect towards web standards is not important? Sure, when Internet Explorer had over 90% market share and was in the actual position of defining what the web looked like users didn't care. And they continued not to care for over 5 years as IE stagnated the entire world wide web due to the simple fact there was no competition and therefore no reason to innovate.
The author thinks today's browsers are bad? Without Firefox causing Microsoft to wake up you'd probably still be using IE6 today. At least with standards in place it's possible to have some reasonable balance between browser competition and an actual functioning web.
> My other problem with Safari is that they are doing fuck all with it. It gets updated, what, twice a year?
That's what I mean by "incoherent/convoluted -- at times arguing against itself".
The rest of the rant is just assigning opinion based importance to certain features over others. I personally couldn't care less about sharing my tabs across devices -- in fact, with my personal workflow that would often end with my cell phone automatically trying to load 50+ tabs that I left open at work while researching a problem. While on the other hand, I could not get by without a searchable browser history, even if it is just to find some news article I read 6 hours ago. The author claims this feature is useless because of Google -- yet I don't find Google to be a sufficient answer when trying to find content which was only posted a few hours ago.
Well, I don't want the stuff you're talking about. How 'bout that?
Nothing to see here folks.