Re:The Era of the Trident Engine
by cptskippy on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:10PM
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> As a web developer, one less rendering engine to GAF about is nice
I started out using Mozilla Communicator Suite, Phoenix, and now Firefox as my primary browser. I never defaulted to IE and never to Chrome but I have always strived to make everything I wrote work across as many browsers as possible.
Something funny happened around IE 10, the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all started running correctly on the first try on all browsers, even mobile.
It was glorious for about a year or two then everything started to diverge again and with Mobile versions of browsers we're starting to head back towards the hell that was developing for the Web around 2004.
There are certainly more platforms to juggle today but they're more similar than different at this point.
I started out using Mozilla Communicator Suite, Phoenix, and now Firefox as my primary browser. I never defaulted to IE and never to Chrome but I have always strived to make everything I wrote work across as many browsers as possible.
Something funny happened around IE 10, the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all started running correctly on the first try on all browsers, even mobile.
It was glorious for about a year or two then everything started to diverge again and with Mobile versions of browsers we're starting to head back towards the hell that was developing for the Web around 2004.
There are certainly more platforms to juggle today but they're more similar than different at this point.