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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by swiley on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:36PM (#24713024)
When my brother got married his then fiance sent everyone in the wedding party this site with a form on it:

It's mostly radio buttons (with a loading screen and a pile of js/css to make it pretty of course.) You fill it out, click submit and a matching suit gets shipped to your house. I couldn't get some of the controls to work and sent the support people an email. It turns out the form they built uses some special chrome only API and doesn't work in Firefox.

Ditto when I submitted my rental application for my current apartment (how can you screw up a single page with a file form that badly?)

The trends are definitely going the wrong way.

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by trhway on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:39AM (#24716488)
> It turns out the form they built uses some special chrome only API and doesn't work in Firefox.

history repeats itself (or more exactly we humans repeatedly step upon the same pile of stuff) Back then it was IE only APIs. Those APIs of course were for better and richer functionality and user experience. And we all know how it ended.

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