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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

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281 points bentocorp | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 22:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
1. Devasta ◴[19 Nov 24 00:59 UTC] No.42179083[source]▶
As an example of how perfidious some of the discussions on web standards are, on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

In teeny tiny font near the bottom:

"Given the market-share dominance of Blink-based browsers,[4] if Google chooses to not support a standard, like JPEG XL,[30][31] it will not become relevant on the Web.[30][31] Such standards are not listed in these tables."

So if Chrome implements something that Safari doesn't, then its a deficiency in Safari. If Safari supports something Chrome doesn't, its not relevant so will not appear in any comparison tables.

Chrome is 100% the new IE, as it is the being treated as the sole arbiter of what is a web standard or not.

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2. WD-42 ◴[19 Nov 24 02:54 UTC] No.42179679[source]▶
Time to break up chrome.
3. troupo ◴[19 Nov 24 06:46 UTC] No.42180640[source]▶
You can see it here, too. And in all discussions around PWAs. And on sites like whatcanwebdotoday. Anything Chrome ships is considered crucial, critical, and standard. And other browsers are shit because they don't immediately implement everything Chrome implements