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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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Publisher targets 85% Chrome, other browsers send Chrome user agent as a workaround, Publisher now sees 95% Chrome. 🫠
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 don’t 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? This feels like a market failure.
Call me a luddite, but I think if I were BigCorp 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.
