Just like nowadays with chrome!
- AirBnb[1]: "We'd always recommend that you use Google Chrome to browse the site: we've optimised things for this browser. Thanks."
- Seamless[2]: "Safari is not a good browser to use with our website. Google Chrome work better with our website or you can download the app."
- DirecTV Now[3]
- IDAT solutions[4] (some random thing I found while searching)
- Countfire[5] (ditto)
Groupon said something similar as well but walked it back. Whatsapp's web app didn't support Firefox initially but does now.
Could browse through Web Compat[6] as well, though I'm not sure if this site is more about sites that should work in FF but don't, or Firefox bugs.
[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-onl...
[1]: https://twitter.com/AirbnbHelp/status/752829250198245376
[2]: https://twitter.com/Seamless_Care/status/942798540396474368
[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/7/15758274/directv-now-googl...
[4]: https://www.idatsolutions.com/faq/
But as of now, Chrome is and has for a long time been the only browser to support:
Shadow DOM: https://caniuse.com/#feat=shadowdomv1
Custom elements: https://caniuse.com/#feat=custom-elementsv1
CSS Paint API: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-paint-api
That's been in Chrome for, like, less than a year - hardly a "long time". And the implementation leaked history spectacularly [0]. Rushing features out the door isn't necessarily something to be proud of.
[0] https://www.spinda.net/papers/smith-2018-revisited.pdf (see section 3.1)
Now if someone would tell web developers that if you want to write desktop/mobile apps, you need to learn native frameworks.....
What are newer FrontPage alternatives?
The Internet and the web have changed drastically since the days when FrontPage was a very common website editor. Almost every modern website editor these days will require you to have some basic understanding of the concepts of HTML, and CSS coding, instead of the drag and drop design that FrontPage used.
I recently found this thing called 'pinegrove editor' (I think that's' what it's called. looks the closest to something like it and modern.
maybe blue griffon.
Sadly drop and drop widgets with wordpress themes is probably the most widely used that is similar.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/202198/how-to-insta...
Folks who made web sites in those days and paid $20/month to host them provided a pretty compelling library of content compared to today's pay-per-click 'blogosphere'.
I liked the "put up or shut up" pay-to-host model, driven by your beliefs, not your readers.
And despite the pretty garish things that happened in that web design era that FrontPage memorialized (rollover buttons!), kudos to Vermeer for democratizing web site creation.
*: Well, sort of.. there are bits scattered everywhere, I had to dig into email archives to find some specifications.
Those Cobalt RaQ and Qube boxes came with that support baked in, which was a nice feature until Cobalt died and we had to replicate the functionality on straight Linux boxes.
It wasn't hard, it's just that a little part of me died in side every time I had to do it.
I remember I'd use "View Source" and look for Frontpage tags as a cue for whether a site's designers deserved a good mocking
Rather than look at the actual design?
So much time spent, as a small kid, looking for a free webhost that supported FrontPage extensions...
The reasons IE won over Netscape are many, but bundling with dominant OS and embracing/extending standards such that sites only worked in IE was a big part of it. Heck, there was a whole antitrust case about just that.
No Netscape would officially cost you US$49 until 1998.
https://books.google.com/books?id=sjA_WJ82CSsC&lpg=PA102&dq=...
@dang can you edit/delete the parent comment? No need to spread lies here!
Not just the ugly webpages, those were the ubiquitous style at the time. No, FrontPage pioneered deep ugliness, because like all Microsoft products of the 90s it regarded interoperability as a threat. It produces ugly HTML that works best in IE, and it has an optional upload mechanism that requires IIS on the server side.
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/frontpage/th...