A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by joshstrange on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:33AM (#36984975)

People are quick to forget the pain of things like table-based-layout.

I’ll never forget in 2006-2008-ish I developed a website for my computer repair business (I was in High School) and was very proud of it. Then I opened it in IE (I had developed it in Firefox) and it all fell apart (I was using floats IIRC). I then rewrote the whole thing using tables because I knew my target audience would not be running Firefox.

In Safari sometimes things aren’t aligned correctly but nothing to the degree of hacks I’ve done over the years for IE. Gradients, transparent pngs, rounded corners, the list goes on.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by Klonoar on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:40AM (#36985755)

Years of obscure CSS targeting tricks to fix IE6/IE7/etc. Codebases littered with star html hacks that effectively rendered an alternate layout.

Safari is fine in comparison.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by joshstrange on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:53AM (#36985939)

I had almost purged the

    <!--[if IE]>
    Styles/elements here
    <![endif]-->

hacks from my brain but this brought it all back.

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