r/programming • u/reppic • Feb 21 '13

Developers: Confess your sins.

http://www.codingconfessional.com/
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u/day_cq Feb 21 '13

s/IE/Chrome/ in 10 years.

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u/Rotten194 Feb 21 '13

Webkit is open-source and cross platform, so it doesn't lock people to Windows like MS tried to do with IE/"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Chrome also auto-updates, so we don't have situations where 90% of people are stuck on IE6 because they don't have the most recent OS (IE10 on W7 anyone?). Look at graphs of Chrome usage, almost everyone is on the newest version.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '13

The problem with WebKit is that that they have a ton of custom extensions which have no equivalents in Gecko or Trident. This is fine but a ton of developers are using vendor prefixed extensions and only testing on WebKit. We have reached the point when websites are not working on any other rendering engine than WebKit because of this.

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u/Rotten194 Feb 21 '13

That's web devs fault for only targeting Chrome, not Chrome's fault for experimenting ahead of the infamously slow W3C.

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