1718627440
2 hours ago
> Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
Because the Chrome implementation is implemented server-side.
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain
59 pointsposted a day ago
by cdrnsf15 Comments
jamesfinlayson
14 hours ago
Oh, I thought Chrome did have a similar list - maybe I got confused with WebKit. This very site has one quirk: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/25738effd8eeca9b8d15e4...
tracker1
18 hours ago
I've seen similar issues simply by using Linux as my main desktop... some sites just won't work because of it, or seem to filter out "Linux" in the user agent. Which kinda sucks.
pmontra
17 hours ago
Could you give an example? I've been working with a Linux desktop since 2009 and everything seems to work.
abrowne
13 hours ago
Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.
sli
17 hours ago
This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.
like_any_other
12 hours ago
If market competition law wasn't reduced to dead ink, lying about your competitor's product, or abusing your dominance in one market to dominate another market, would at minimum carry painful fines.
piekvorst
6 hours ago
I agree that lying should be illegal, but “domination” is vague. One could argue (and I would agree) that there’s nothing wrong with dominance if it comes down to just offering a superior product.
And why should the cross-market context be treated differently?
pmontra
17 hours ago
Web services could have at least one developer using Firefox and another one using Safari. I'm the one with Firefox for my customers. Their web apps work with at least Chrome and Firefox. Safari is on them, if they have a Mac. Nobody ever complained.
phillipseamore
a day ago
If Safari and Firefox had the exact same lists of sites and fixes I might agree, but they don't.
robthebrew
a day ago
Just ditch Chrome and then the website owners see shrinking traffic.
cybercatgurrl
15 hours ago
and how, pray tell, might we convince the masses to do this?
pseudohadamard
5 hours ago
This is the exact same situation that got Microsoft tied up in endless antitrust investigations 30 years ago. Of course that was back when the US still had a government rather than a service bureau for billionaires.