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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

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281 points bentocorp | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 22:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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MBCook ◴[18 Nov 24 02:46 UTC] No.42169292[source]▶
Yes.

If it works on Chrome, no one cares or even tests for other things.

If there is a JS feature in Chrome they want to use, so it’s impossible to use other browsers (instead of looking wrong) people do it.

Performs fine in Chrome? Ship it.

Yes, Chrome is the new IE in that it’s the only browsers companies care about, just like IE was for a very long time.

Everything has to be Chrome compatible to succeed. That’s the benchmark, not what the spec says.

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wseqyrku ◴[18 Nov 24 02:54 UTC] No.42169325[source]▶
> If it works on Chrome, no one cares or even tests for other things.

We've been through an extensive standardization pass for this to not happen. Anything not matching the specification whether in Chrome or any other browser should be considered a bug.

This is not at all the same as IE, where it just went its own way.

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1. Y-bar ◴[18 Nov 24 19:28 UTC] No.42175962[source]▶
As I wrote in a similar thread a year ago: Whenever I point out that some bug which happens in Firefox my colleagues usually responds with some variant of "we tested in Chrome, and that is the standard", or "can you ask the customer to use Chrome instead". Even if Firefox or some other browser may be using a proper standards implementation and the Chrome one being the one with some quirk.