Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
underline960@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoWhen I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.
It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It’s ironic that I use Firefox personally but unfortunately we mostly did too when I did more front end work. Firefox would often render views differently compared to Chrome (Safari was also a shetshow) but we had to prioritize work ofc.
The thing is, as a pure guess, I would bet that it’s Chrome that’s not adhering to the web standards.
I switched from Chrome to Firefox at work recently once they added tab groups. A few parts of one of the web apps my team maintains straight up don’t work. I mentioned it in a meeting, received a full 10 seconds of silence before someone said “Well customers aren’t complaining…”
Yeah, I’m not a dev, but I work with dev teams. They all don’t test with firefox anymore. Not enough ROI according to the product managers.
MinusPi@pawb.social 6 days ago
It’s so damn stupid. If your site works meaningfully differently in Firefox vs Chromium, you’re already doing something very, very wrong.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yep, this is why at least for me when I develop websites I use Firefox first for development to make sure that the website runs on Firefox.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Chromium does a lot of heavy lifting to fix problems with websites which enables certain web developers to be lazy.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Smae thing that Nvidia does with OpenGL. Their driver handles a lot erroneous out of spec behaviour so developers think their game works fine but the moment you run it on AMD or Intel GPUs, you get all sorts of issues because they actually implement the spec accurately.
okmko@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This is like telling people to “buy low and sell high” as trading advice. It’s obvious what to do but the difficulty lies in how to do it.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days ago
The how is testing on one other browser.
okmko@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What a novel idea.