Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 15 hours agoOn “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 11 hours 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.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
This is not about Internetexplorer this is about EdgeHTML.
Wrench@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.