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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by tomnipotent on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:08AM (#18153483)
My business is 80% mobile traffic, of which 80% is iOS. It feels a lot like the old IE6 days, only (fortunately) less painful.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by realusername on Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:50AM (#18153744)
Yeah I confirm, I spend so much time fixing bugs for IE11 and Safari mobile.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by majewsky on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:01AM (#18155155)
I recall how much joy I felt when my company's IT retired IE 7 and force-upgraded everyone to IE 8. So much polyfills and crutches that we could get rid of... (It was about the same, to a lesser extent, when moving the minimum requirement up to IE 9. That's the point where I stopped thinking about browser support.)
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by kkarakk on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:39AM (#18154853)
similar market forces at play - apple users use safari coz it is the default browser so you have to develop for safari first not web first just like ms wanted you to develop for IE first not web first.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by mcintyre1994 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:01AM (#18155150)
It's actually the only browser engine on iOS, all the third party ones are just skins on it with convenience features like syncing with their desktop counterparts.
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Re:Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faste... by solarkraft on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:36PM (#18158194)
... For some reason. Because Apple. This is one of the things keeping me from taking them seriously.
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