• underline960@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    When 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.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s so damn stupid. If your site works meaningfully differently in Firefox vs Chromium, you’re already doing something very, very wrong.

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        2 hours ago

        Chromium does a lot of heavy lifting to fix problems with websites which enables certain web developers to be lazy.

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        4 hours 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.

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        4 hours ago

        This is like telling people that they are doing something wrong when they don’t “buy low and sell high” when they’re trading. Obviously. Issues with browser parity are born from a difficulty of the how and the when, not the what.

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      4 hours ago

      It’s ironic that I use Firefox personally but unfortunately we prioritized Chrome when I did more front end work too. Firefox would often render views differently compared to Chrome (Safari was also a shetshow) and we had to prioritize work ofc, especially for legacy stuff.

      The thing is, as a pure guess, I would bet that it’s Chrome that’s not adhering to the web standards.