Once Safari and Edge stop giving me headaches I might be more sympathetic to their cause.
We still have new browsers popping up, like Brave and Vivaldi. We still have Firefox, which is decent.
I don't understand what your concern is in this context.
We still have new browsers popping up, like Brave and Vivaldi. We still have Firefox, which is decent.
I don't understand what your concern is in this context.
That time would be better spent elsewhere.
(Note that Brave doesn't have its own engine, it's Chromium. Unsure about Vivaldi - is it Blink based or Presto based?)
What actually happened is that Android phones got stuck on several outdated WebKit versions, Safari on another, and then Chrome forked WebKit into Blink.
So instead of one engine, you now have...like 5 or 6, realistically.
Trying to target standards compliance instead of relying on browser quirks is still the best strategy, both for devs and the ecosystem. It was in 2002 and it still is in 2017. Without it, we wouldn't have iPhones, Android phones or Chrome, for crying out loud.