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Re:Helium Browser by reaperducer on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:29AM (#45371995)
leading standards support

Except no support for:

  CSS Canvas Drawings
  CSS filter() function
  Video Tracks
  Audio Tracks
  FIDO U2F API
  SPDY protocol
  JPEG XL image format
  HTTP Live Streaming
  HEIF/HEIC image format
  SVG fonts
  CSS hanging-punctuation
And broken support for:

  CSS font-smooth
  CSS Initial Letter
  Speech Recognition API
  CSS -webkit-user-drag property
  CSS3 Multiple column layout
  CSS text-indent
  Synchronous Clipboard API
  HEVC/H.265 video format
  TLS 1.1
  text-decoration styling
  CSS display: contents
  CSS Container Style Queries
  CSS clip-path property for HTML
  CSS Counter Styles
  Ruby annotation
  WAI-ARIA Accessibility features
  Media Fragments
  autocomplete attribute: on & off values
  DOMMatrix
  SVG effects for HTML
  X-Frame-Options HTTP header
  DNSSEC and DANE
  WebXR Device API
  DeviceOrientation & DeviceMotion events
  Permissions Policy
  asm.js
  Network Information API
  theme-color Meta Tag
  Document Policy
Source: https://caniuse.com

The whole "Chrome is the leader in standards" meme is a lie.

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Re:Helium Browser by lima on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:12PM (#45374669)
Your copy&paste does not support your argument. Just looking at the top items on your list, it's basically a bunch of Safari-only features which no other browser vendor ships:

- CSS Canvas Drawings is not a web standard. It's a WebKit-specific feature, only Safari implements it. Chromium removed it in order to replace it with an actual web standard (CSS Painting API).

- Likewise, the CSS filter() function is Safari-only.

- U2F API has been deprecated for years, was replaced by WebAuthn, and only Safari still implements it.

- Same with SPDY, which was replaced by an actual web standard (HTTP2). Only Safari still ships it, but has marked it deprecated.

- SVG Fonts were removed from the SVG spec.

- HLS, JPEG-XL, HEIF/HEIC are essentially Safari-only as well.

CSS hanging-punctuation and audio/video tracks are new features that haven't been widely implemented yet.

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Re:Helium Browser by fkyoureadthedoc on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:03PM (#45375535)
Considering there's 2 browsers, 3 if we're being generous, basically every new feature is a bunch of X-only features that Y doesn't support.
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