Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by michaelmrose on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:25PM
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The browser vendor CAN'T install tarmac in shops floor.
The shop controls the server the user rightly controls the experience on their machine. The browser vendor provides an application that runs on the users machine. If the shop doesn't like it they can pound sand or suggest the user would be better off with a different browser.
They can perhaps rightly say that the deviation from standard is unfriendly or sub optimal but one would hope they wouldn't appeal to imaginary authority derived from a bad analogy.
A raven isn't like a writing desk and a client server interaction isn't like a user visiting a physical store.
Analogies can serve to communicate but when you use them to prove a point the only thing you prove is your lack of understanding of the matter.
The shop controls the server the user rightly controls the experience on their machine. The browser vendor provides an application that runs on the users machine. If the shop doesn't like it they can pound sand or suggest the user would be better off with a different browser.
They can perhaps rightly say that the deviation from standard is unfriendly or sub optimal but one would hope they wouldn't appeal to imaginary authority derived from a bad analogy.
A raven isn't like a writing desk and a client server interaction isn't like a user visiting a physical store.
Analogies can serve to communicate but when you use them to prove a point the only thing you prove is your lack of understanding of the matter.