If your attitude had been prevalent in 200x we had still been stuck with IE6.
The reason we aren't is because we "old" devs fought against it and got lucky that Microsoft forgot IE at the same time as Firefox became really good.
Today Firefox is getting good again (edit: see added footnote [0]) and Google only needs to do a couple of mistakes, and that includes the one which they already seems pretty committed to - or maybe get some IMO really well deserved punishment for anti competitive behavior - before things become more competitive.
But that still depends on us fighting to keep the web cross browser compatible until then.
[0]: for my and many others purposes it was always better, I actually tried toblike Chrome back when it was the underdog and it just never cut it for me
The reason we aren't is because we "old" devs fought against it and got lucky that Microsoft forgot IE at the same time as Firefox became really good.
Today Firefox is getting good again (edit: see added footnote [0]) and Google only needs to do a couple of mistakes, and that includes the one which they already seems pretty committed to - or maybe get some IMO really well deserved punishment for anti competitive behavior - before things become more competitive.
But that still depends on us fighting to keep the web cross browser compatible until then.
[0]: for my and many others purposes it was always better, I actually tried toblike Chrome back when it was the underdog and it just never cut it for me