Comment by xxmarkuski

6 months ago

A commit to Webkits Quirks.cpp was shared last month [0]. Probably not what you are referring to but has a similar vibe.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631439

Not really. Browser developers add lots of different website-specific hacks to make sites behave better in their browser. Mozilla actually used to do this a lot, when they were originally the underdog 20+ years ago and were trying to get people to switch to the Mozilla suite (and then Firefox), when the argument against switching was often related to websites not working or rendering properly in Mozilla/Firefox that behaved properly in IE.

(Not that this is not the same thing as a website developer adding browser-specific hacks to make their site behave better/worse in a particular browser.)