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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-04-20 12:52 UTC

As a web developer, I would happily support current chrome over literally any version of IE. It’s not even a contest. The majority of standards are properly implemented in chrome, and it *tends* to be edge cases that are not. Whereas for IR you needed IE specific “hacks” to do a number of everyday things.

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  • @Katana314@lemmy.world 2026-04-20 12:59

    Of course they’re implemented properly in Chrome. They wrote those standards, and pushed them through without review. Hence why technologies like WebRTC and simple gradients had about 8 half-working implementations in Chrome, while the later IE team put a hand up and said “Hang on, let’s implement this the right way and agree on a spec.” The way you describe IE-specific hacks was true up through around IE9. Once they got to Edge, they retired importance of major versions and insisted people auto-update their browser, getting companies off the idea of retaining an old browser for “compatibility”. They were doing the right thing for a short time before the end. I suppose a lot of people didn’t even see that period.

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