It was worse than Gecko. Gecko is excellent.

Edge still has (had?) so many rendering issues on sites we make. One thing I find really impressive about Firefox, despite the completely different engine I _very_ rarely find FF-specific bugs.

(Perhaps I should have specified "Quantum" rather than "Gecko"? I meant the engine that new Firefox uses, I thought it was still called Gecko but sounds like I might be wrong?)

www.just-eat.no

Many (all?) Oslo postcodes start with 0, and their site truncates the 0 when you try to enter your postcode. Their stated solution was to use Chrome, so they don't get any of my business.

From your description, it sounds like they decided to use a "number" typed field for the post codes. This is of course incorrect, post codes are really just strings. While the bug manifests itself on firefox, it is hard to blame it for implementing the field according to spec [1]. Chrome decided to ignore the spec and leave the field more free-form, which in turn enables developers to use it incorrectly without detecting the compatibility bug.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#number-state-typ...

> User agents must not allow the user to set the value to a non-empty string that is not a valid floating-point number. If the user agent provides a user interface for selecting a number, then the value must be set to the best representation of the number representing the user’s selection as a floating-point number.

Notably, this type of issue is exactly why it's important to have more than one implementation of web standards!

If Chrome is your only target, the standard ceases to mean anything. The real standard is just whatever Chrome does.

Open-source IE would be even more interesting to see, mostly because the early versions ran well even on systems with two orders of magnitude less RAM and CPU power than ones today; especially when displaying static pages and not JS-heavy apps. I remember the Firefox of the time was noticeably more sluggish than IE6 and used more RAM, and know quite a few people who tried FF and went back to IE for that reason.

I could just imagine them looking at the (security) horrors of the IE source code, and with a cold sweat, sticking it in the drawer.