On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Personally, I think it is *good* that there is a plurality of browsers in > the market. In my perfect world, no single browser should capture more > than 20% share of users.
In *MY* perfect world, choice of browser should be completely up to the user, and web developers should not have to care. You code to the standard, safe in the knowledge that all your users are going to have standards-compliant browsers, and you don't care whether some of them are on Chrome, some on Firefox, some on IE, some on Opera, and some on TwoCansPieceString. And users know that they can choose whatever browser gives them the features they want, without having to worry about whether other sites will fail. We're getting close to that, but we're not yet there. > That doesn't explain Javascript or Flash. Both are popular *despite* > being unreliable and inefficient. The Flash plugin is widely regarded as > a steaming heap of unreliable crap even on Windows. Its reputation on > Linux is even worse. I've tried my hand at writing Flash code. If its next version requires that developers stab themselves with rusty forks and code using their own blood, I think it'd be an improvement over the current one. And from the other end... leaving Flash sites up in my browser is one of the best ways to destroy my battery life. It sucks... power. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
