Yet, the web has been prospering for two decades in spite of the quasi-monopoly state of browsers. It's the living evidence that the dominant browser vendor doesn't has as much power as people imagine.
Like 90%+ of internet traffic goes to a handful of sites owned by tech giants. Most of what's left is SEO garbage serving those same tech giants' ad networks.
Like how every other browser vendor is supportive and the issue was actually raised by Mozilla?
See the agenda here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11131#issuecomment-274...
How do you think we got into this mess in the first place? First it was Netscape, then Microsoft, now Google.
Yet, the web has been prospering for two decades in spite of the quasi-monopoly state of browsers. It's the living evidence that the dominant browser vendor doesn't has as much power as people imagine.
> prospering
Like 90%+ of internet traffic goes to a handful of sites owned by tech giants. Most of what's left is SEO garbage serving those same tech giants' ad networks.
The web has been prospering?
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More like three decades, but I get your point. ;) I remember running Netscape 0.9 something back in 1994.
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But hey it’s totally not a monopoly!
“Free markets and capitalism”. They give us superior, user centered, transparent products.