(08-20-2020, 01:30 AM)Lurkerish Allsorts Wrote:(08-20-2020, 12:33 AM)Chipster of Redstone Wrote: That's great news!
I want to agree with you, I really do... but as I stated previously this causes a huge headache for IT people.
But there is also something, far more worrying, monopolization of the web rendering engine.
Back in the day IE was the major web browser,Netscape which begot Mozilla Suite which then begot Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was the only true competition to IE. The internet was a hellscape of "This page only works in IE" (much like anti adblock popups these days), web pages that used ActiveX, non standard HTML code, et al.
With Edge moving to the Chrome engine (which is based on Apple's Webkit which is based on KHTML a rendering engine for a KDE based browser), we are moving closer and closer to going back to that hellscape. Opera is now based on Chrome also.
One company just having control of the rendering engine is bad enough, but Google/Alphabet has so much control of the internet that this is not a good thing, nothing at all. The web was meant to be decentralized, and yet here we are where Google is not just in control of the major web search engine, but of email, of the usenet archives, of how the the computer renders web pages, and so much more.
If you asked me 10 years ago if I would be defending IE I'd call you crazy, yet here I am.
Sure, there is that - but, to be honest, I think that battle was lost at least four or five years ago (and, realistically, it's probably been even longer than that).
From looking at StatCounter's worldwide desktop browser stats for 2016, the original Edge just didn't take off - and, while IE still had decent-ish usage figures at the beginning of the year, it had fallen below 10% by the end of the year, never to recover. (Of course, it was clear even before 2016 that IE was on the way out, and Edge was supposed to replace it as Microsoft's main Firefox/Chrome competitor. Obviously, it didn't work out that way; however, that was the intended strategy )
We can certainly hope that someone will come along (perhaps sooner rather than later) to break the monopoly of Chromium-based browsers. However, it's been clear for years now that IE isn't going to be the one to do it.
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