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Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
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Tldr: the big sites only target functionality for chrome due to market share, and if the other browsers don’t want the shitty reputation, they have to do this
I do have doubt your explanation, but it’s tragic and backwards. It would make sense that a WordPress recipe blog wouldn’t be developed with smaller browsers in mind. But 5% of Instagram’s traffic is a gigantic amount of traffic, worth catering to. Wouldn’t it be the big websites that have both the budget and the motivation to make their sites work across browsers?
Call me a luddite, but I think if I were the website director I’d be saying “If you have to do something special to make it work in Browser X vs Browser Y, you’re getting too fancy, you don’t need that crap.”
I worked in software development. There are browsers that are tested, and “recommended” and ones that are left to rot. the bigger a company is, the less they give a shit
And they usually don’t really give a shit in the first place about the website at all, the primary target is the app.
Publisher targets 85% Chrome, other browsers send Chrome user agent as a workaround, Publisher now sees 95% Chrome. 🫠
