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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by josteink on Friday August 30, 2019 @03:18PM (#20841690)
> It sucks that we have to do that, but I can't entirely blame them for making their own products work better on their own browser.

You mean like MS for a long time did with MSIE?

Are we really back in the 90s, back to “This page works best in $one_specific_browser”?

This is not the future I was hoping for... On the flip side I can use Linux for almost anything, so i guess it’s not all bad.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by copperx on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:46PM (#20842540)
> Are we really back in the 90s, back to “This page works best in $one_specific_browser”?

Do webdevs really check for Chrome AND Firefox compatibility? The devs I know consider the job done as long as their site works with Chrome.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by josteink on Saturday August 31, 2019 @06:03AM (#20845481)
> Do webdevs really check for Chrome AND Firefox compatibility? The devs I know consider the job done as long as their site works with Chrome.

That would technically only make them Chrome-devs.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by hawkice on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:26PM (#20843632)
This... is more fraught than you might guess. Really fiddly details can make things look goofy if you don't check.
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by pjmlp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:46PM (#20848412)
Yes, because Google is a cool company, do no evil and such.
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by hutzlibu on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:29PM (#20842390)
Well .. consider you are back in the 90s ... would you think in general, that this is "the future you was hoping for..."?
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by pjmlp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:47PM (#20848419)
I was considering a future of native applications, connected via network protocols, with the browser being used for hypertext documents.
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