Re:300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit
by LeonidasXIV on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:16AM
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> I would think one vendor would be great for standards: it is the standard.
Well, IE6 was the standard. See how many sites were "optimized" for IE6 and getting them to render in a browser that supported these pesky underdog W3C standards was bound to fail.
> Out if curiosity, what IE6-ish things do you see WebKit doing?
Not quite the same, but the -webkit CSS prefix that people use without a fallback for other browsers: webkit browsers display the stuff and on e.g. Firefox or Opera it looks broken, because nobody cares to add a -moz or -o prefixed version, or even the non-prefixed version.
Well, IE6 was the standard. See how many sites were "optimized" for IE6 and getting them to render in a browser that supported these pesky underdog W3C standards was bound to fail.
> Out if curiosity, what IE6-ish things do you see WebKit doing?
Not quite the same, but the -webkit CSS prefix that people use without a fallback for other browsers: webkit browsers display the stuff and on e.g. Firefox or Opera it looks broken, because nobody cares to add a -moz or -o prefixed version, or even the non-prefixed version.