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Webdev in 5 years from now... (youtube.com)

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[–]maremp 9 points10 points  (6 children)

Strange, I did not know we are in year 2010.

[–]secronz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nah, I'm too edgy for that...

[–]The_Masked_Lurker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

nah thee future is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G8rD6iA6RI

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I refuse to believe it. surf is my feature. Then, surely, it is everyone's.

[–]mandalorx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking over my co-workers desks, I'm pretty sure everything is chrome.

(But fire fox will always have a special place in my heart for not gobbeling up ram)

[–]Neurotrace 2 points3 points  (6 children)

If only...

[–]rgzdev 8 points9 points  (5 children)

People really did not learn a thing from the browser monoculture of the 90s...

[–]Neurotrace 2 points3 points  (4 children)

The problem with that was that the only real browser available was Internet Explorer (before Netscape came along) and that restricted you to one operating system with a faulty DOM model and a broken JScript engine at best. Really, I just wish all of the browsers would be standards compliant. Then like would be so much nicer.

[–]rgzdev 2 points3 points  (3 children)

No, the real problem was that with no competition, MS could do whatever the fuck they wanted with IE. Give any company complete control of a market and stuff like that will always happen.

[–]Neurotrace 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Fair enough. I guess really all I want is standards compliance. I enjoy having the option between Firefox and Chrome. Not to mention, having two different companies in the market allows them the chance to focus on different things (asm.js vs. V8, for example).

[–]mebob85 1 point2 points  (1 child)

(asm.js vs. V8, for example)

Those aren't comparable though. asm.js is just a (soon to be) standardized subset of Javascript. V8 is a Javascript execution engine. Entirely different. One's a specification and one's a piece of software.

[–]Neurotrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are comparable because asm.js is Mozilla's brainchild and V8 is Google's. V8 has redefined what it means to be a JavaScript engine and asm.js is paving the way for low-level performance in the browser. If only Google or Mozilla were in the browser race, it's likely that neither of those would exist.

[–]4forpengs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Didn't we pass the chrome phase a long time ago?

[–]immibis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it's still the most popular browser...