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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.

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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
ah yes, the google white knights.

because thats what a billion dollar company that threatens to seize control of the internet needs.

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- Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Dude. Seriously. Genuinely.
    
    Are you on drugs?
    
    Or are you the victim of a mental derangement?
    
    Because we need an explanation for this complete divorce from reality you seem to be suffering from.
    
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h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This is not about Internetexplorer this is about EdgeHTML.
    
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    Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Because we should wipe away 2 decades of history and pretend the next thing is flawless on release?
    
    Edge came in with a freight train of baggage, and didn’t make it. It’s absurd to frame this otherwise.
    
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