Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by nixos on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:51AM (#12477472)

Microsoft then had a near complete monopoly on anything computers.

If you remember how Mozilla had to include all the IE6 mistakes all web programmers assumed were standard?

And yes, back then definitely Microsoft was in EEE mode. They would do anything they possibly could do to keep the internet Windows only

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by meshko on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:57AM (#12477494)

They settled in 2001. OS X was released same year, signaling the beginning of the end of that monopoly.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by nixos on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:06AM (#12477530)

OSX had little market share.

I mean, it still has a relatively small market.

If you can save a week's work and make your site work on 97% of computers, or spend another week to get it to 99%, what would you do?

And in truth, Mozilla/Opera/other HTML browsers had around 10 percent of marketshare even during the heydays of IE6's reign, and yet plenty of websites only worked on IE6.

Would programmers care about those five percent of Mac users?

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