Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
by thewebcount on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:15PM
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Over the years I've used Mosaic, Navigator, IE, Cyberdog, iCab, Safari, and Firefox. There were others that I never tried like the original Opera before they became another Chrome fork. They were all capable in their day, and overlapped other capable browsers. The only consistent issues I ran into were websites that assumed everyone was on Windows (I wasn't) and running IE 6.
Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents
by asrt on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:31AM
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10 years ago you could safely use Firefox (Gecko), Chrome (Webkit), Konqueror (KHTML), Opera (Presto), Internet Explorer and small browsers like Lynx.
Today only Blink and Gecko remain. And for some reason web developers want Gecko to dissapear.
Since I've been using the web it has been: Mosaic, then Netscape Navigator then still netscape for me but a lot of the web shifted to IE, then Mozilla or ie depending on platform, then Chrome
...there hasn't failed to be competition (ie people have tried) but they have failed to get traction.
Meanwhile the complexity of the web and its underlying protocols has increased a lot, user expectations have shifted from static page viewing to running all manner of apps in the browser, and necessarily browsers have become more and more complex.