Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by nchi3 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:50PM (#28980272)

You must be quite new to frontend development, right? It's really never been easier than today to do this. Edge uses chromium and IE isn't a thing anymore (for most devs), so it's basically 3 modern and regularly updated browser engines which are _very_ close to each other features-wise.

Also, one of the biggest problems with Chrome has been that Google are breaking standards with it repetitively. If you're for well-regulated browsers, Chrome shouldn't be your browser of choice.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by shadowgovt on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:13PM (#28980979)

Actually I've been doing it about a decade. Long enough to have had to make the judgement call to not change our site to fix performance regressions on Firefox because there weren't enough users to justify the cost a couple times.

It's okay; FF unbroke themselves in 2 revisions anyway. But if it'd been Chrome, fixing the site would have been our top priority.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by nchi3 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:58PM (#28981346)

Ah, fair enough! Yeah, it might not be perfect, but I don't think it's bad enough to make a mono/duopoly the better option.

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