If anyone has used the internet for roughly ten or so years, they'd have seen a change in the internet. Initially, the internet was coded to work best with Internet Explorer. That is something that we can all agree is bad. That is something that means that the internet was held back, since it relied on a browser that wasn't really updated much over the course of five or more years after IE 6 was released. I don't think there's a single person who will tell you that coding to a single web browser is a good thing.
Nowadays, websites aren't coded to work best with IE.
Rejoicing, right?
Now websites are coded to WebKit first. This means that everyone has to either put special "act like WebKit" tags in their rendering or it won't work as well. Clearly the internet is enraged at the idea of mobile, and non-mobile, sites being made to work best with one browser as opposed to being coded to standards. They were upset about the idea of IE being 'the standard' on the basis that it was the most used. Clearly the fact that WebKit is growing in use won't mean that we should focus on coding to that, right?
Wrong.
WebKit-preference isn't just okay, apparently, but praised. There seems to be some idea that just because it's OSS that it's alright. I don't understand why people have this double standard. When Microsoft dominates the web and websites focus on them first, it's bad. When it happens with WebKit, it's somehow good to standardize. This is not amusing, and this type of behavior should not be tolerated by anyone who lived through the days when everything that wasn't IE didn't display the page correctly.
Nowadays, websites aren't coded to work best with IE.
Rejoicing, right?
Now websites are coded to WebKit first. This means that everyone has to either put special "act like WebKit" tags in their rendering or it won't work as well. Clearly the internet is enraged at the idea of mobile, and non-mobile, sites being made to work best with one browser as opposed to being coded to standards. They were upset about the idea of IE being 'the standard' on the basis that it was the most used. Clearly the fact that WebKit is growing in use won't mean that we should focus on coding to that, right?
Wrong.
WebKit-preference isn't just okay, apparently, but praised. There seems to be some idea that just because it's OSS that it's alright. I don't understand why people have this double standard. When Microsoft dominates the web and websites focus on them first, it's bad. When it happens with WebKit, it's somehow good to standardize. This is not amusing, and this type of behavior should not be tolerated by anyone who lived through the days when everything that wasn't IE didn't display the page correctly.
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