How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers

Re:How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers by nske on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @05:31PM (#3592092)

The downside is the average Joe thinks this stuff is easy enough and he should do it professionally. And then:

- Market floods with professionals who antagonize proper web developers, since, to unknoweledgeable clients, the result appears to be the same

- Web floods with sites that behave in unpredictable ways in different browsers

- Proper developers carry the burden of dealing with idiosyncrasies of various browsers

- Browser developers carry the burden of trying guess through amazingly creative atrocities

Although, to be honest, things don't look as grim as they used to regarding the middle two. I just wish some people would stick to HTML and stopped brute-forcing javascript to work.

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Re:How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers by flomo on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @01:44AM (#3593345)

Except all of those things started happening in about 1994. And that's why 15+ years later we have spec which defines error conditions rather than just the 'proper' way.

(If you weren't online/sentient back then, sites commonly had these 'Best viewed in Netscape' badges on them.)

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Re:How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers by yuhong on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @04:31AM (#3593671)

I think it started with Mosaic in 1993.

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