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Something largely only possible in hobby projects unfortunately.

On hobby projects I support only standards. Your browser not to spec? Not my problem. Well, it would be my problem, due to less traffic from people with broken browsers, but I don't monetize or track my traffic.

Professionally, I'm over here supporting IE8 and Safari 5 (the last version available to Windows) still. Next year we'll finally be dropping IE (all versions) so only a few more months to go.

Unfortunately if something is broken in Chrome or Firefox - I get to fix it. Then when the browser finally fixes it - I get to go fix it by removing the old fix which now breaks things. Really unproductive but I can't argue against it.




All true, but imagine you didn't have these browsers sitting between your code and the native OS. Would that be any cleaner?

At least browser vendors do try to conform to some common specs and any deviation from the spec can be bridged using JavaScript libraries.

Without browsers as a target you might find yourself supporting ancient Android versions and Windows XP.




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