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Direct link to the article What is the Value of Browser Diversity?
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What is the Value of Browser Diversity?

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In 2018, Rachel Nabors made the point that browser diversity is similar to biological ecosystem diversity. There are literal advantages to more diversity. That article was before the Edge engines were shut, and now the big shakeups at Mozilla …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 18, 2020
Direct link to the article Comparing Browsers for Responsive Design
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Comparing Browsers for Responsive Design

There are a number of these desktop apps where the goal is showing your site at different dimensions all at the same time. So you can, for example, be writing CSS and making sure it’s working across all the viewports …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 7, 2020
Direct link to the article Improving Chromium’s browser compatibility in 2020
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Improving Chromium’s browser compatibility in 2020

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This is exactly what I love to hear from any browser vendor:

When it comes to browser compatibility, there are still too many missing features and edge-case bugs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Things can and will

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 7, 2020
Direct link to the article Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health
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Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health

As front-end developers, our job is working with browsers. Knowing how many we have and the health of them is always of great interest. As far as numbers go, we have fewer recently than we have in the past. It’s …

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Chris Coyier on Jun 16, 2020
Direct link to the article Things you can do with a browser in 2020
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Things you can do with a browser in 2020

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I edit a good amount of technical articles about the web, and there is a tendency for authors to be super broad in their opening sentence, like “What we’re able to do on the web has expanded greatly over the …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 13, 2020
Direct link to the article Microbrowsers are Everywhere
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Microbrowsers are Everywhere

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The word “microbrowser” clearly got my attention. Never heard that before. Colin Bendell defines them as the little parts of other software that do HTTP requests to a URL to generate a preview. Like the little URL preview in iOS…

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jan 3, 2020
Direct link to the article Zero hands up.
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Zero hands up.

Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality.

Zero hands up.

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) September 25, 2019

It’s worth making this clear then. …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 2, 2019
Direct link to the article What happens when you open a new install of browsers for the 1st time?
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What happens when you open a new install of browsers for the 1st time?

Interesting research from Jonathan Sampson, where he watches the network requests a browser makes the very first time you launch it on a fresh install, and otherwise do nothing. This gives you a little insight into what kind of …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 27, 2019
Direct link to the article Browser Engine Diversity
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Browser Engine Diversity

We lost Opera when they went Chrome in 2013. Same deal with Edge when it also went Chrome earlier this year. Mike Taylor called these changes a “Decreasingly Diverse Browser Engine World” in a talk I’d like to see.

So …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 24, 2019
Direct link to the article WorldWideWeb
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For the 30th anniversary of the web, CERN brought nine web nerds together to recreate the very first web browser — Or a working replication of it anyway, as you use it from your web browser, inception style.

Well …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Feb 27, 2019
Direct link to the article Browser Diversity Commentary, Regarding the Edge News
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Browser Diversity Commentary, Regarding the Edge News

Still no word from the horse’s mouth about the reported EdgeHTML demise, but I hear that’s coming later today. The blog posts are starting to roll in about the possible impact of this though.

Update: here are the …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 16, 2018
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