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Magic Lasso suggests that Chrome might be the new IE (www.magiclasso.co)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bloated and complacent, Chrome might be on the path to playing the same role as IE was playing 15 years ago, shunned by developers and technologically inferior to other browsers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Not a fair assessment. Chromium and Blink are still open source, cross platform and standards compliant. With IE not only it was closed source but the Mac OS and UNIX ports had a different rendering engine with different behaviour and bugs.

I personally do dislike Google, but that's another topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

standards compliant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Chromium does do the EEE from Microsoft. (Embrace, extend, extinguish) Last time I checked web Bluetooth and web USB were Chromium only because they aren't standard.

Also Chromium often writes the standard since they control the browser. Jpeg XL and Mv3 ring a bell?

I don't think it is quite fair to call them IE but Chromium isn't good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

It is more that both browsers are by their respective companies to create the Internet they want.

IE intentionally gimped higher level browser usage as a way to defend the Windows monopoly. Web apps in IE would never be developed to the quality they could compete against natively run programs in Windows.

Chromium works to keep the Internet open and platform agnostic, but keeps tracking and cookies because Google makes money on the Internet by serving ads online.