alt Hacker News1. That's just your skewed take.
2. That's just your skewed take.
3. So what, bugs can be fixed. It's nowhere near as abusive as what Apple does by forcing Safari on every iOS browser.
4. You think the "browser wars" are over? Apple's actions clearly indicate the war is on, and they've selected the nuclear option of forbidding any other browser on their platform.
>Internet Explorer in the 2000s: shits out a bunch of own non-standard crap, people boo them
Did people "boo" XMLHTTPRequest? Because it actually revolutionized the web, and people cheered it.
> That's just your skewed take.
When you deliberately ignore what Google is doing, every view that is not praising Google's take over of the web is skewed.
> So what, bugs can be fixed.
No. Not on the web they can't. Once it's shipped, people depend on the functionality. That is why we're stuck with so many crappy unfixable APIs in the platform.
> Did people "boo" XMLHTTPRequest? Because it actually revolutionized the web, and people cheered it.
And yet, they didn't cheer ActiveX. For some reason you assume that every single API Google pushes out is XHR, and not ActiveX