On: I Support the WebKit Monoculture

[nbevans]

"IE attempted to follow in Microsoft’s Embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy, and that is bad for the web."

Attempted and failed. And that was 10 years ago. Why are these WebKit guys always so stuck in the past? Microsoft is very clearly all about embracing the web.

More importantly, when will they realise that WebKit-specific CSS styles are bad for the web?

[josteink → nbevans]

Yeah. It's interesting to see people who embrace WebKit-only code right now openly criticize MSIE for the damage it did to the web 10 years ago.

WebKit is the new MSIE. And WebKit-only code needs to be shunned the same way we (eventually) shunned MSIE-only code.

[viseztrance → nbevans]

In my opinion, they're already trapped in a monoculture. The fact is that Github is not the only place where you can host code, nor is a macbook the only machine you can type on. Webkit is just late to the party.