Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoIsn’t Edge also chromium?
Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoIsn’t Edge also chromium?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes, and its a nasty story thats all unofficial cause no one is gonna go on the record.
but the short of it is, Edge had its own browser engine, but google kept making changes to youtube and other sides that broke its performance and made it run like dogshit, while leaving chromium based browsers alone.
after many instances of sabotage > microsoft workaround > google sabotage> microsoft workaround. Microsoft finally gave up and remade Edge as a chromium based browser.
Wrench@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So Google establishing a now industry standard of evergreen versioning so that they could iterate relatively quickly on features, rather than have to maintain compatibility with years old versions, and iterating quickly on their own major websites - is a bad thing?
Right.
Yeah, let’s go back to having to maintain terrible legacy browsers that behaved completely differently for the rest of time.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ah yes, the google white knights.
because thats what a billion dollar company that threatens to seize control of the internet needs.
Wrench@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rofl. So let’s white wash the browser history before chrome, then. Back when IE reigned supreme. You must either be too young or not in the industry to champion that.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
On “features” they would like to see. Most of the time features that make it difficult to block tracking and keep their advertising business going. The web is all about communication standards between different programs and this includes the joint adoption of new standards and respect for the existing standards.
Wrench@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And Google established a lot of the standards that were both open and long living.
Yeah, Google has strayed far from the “Do no evil” philosophy in the last decade. But this rewriting of history to praise IE and demonfy Chrome from that era is ridiculous.