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Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't doubt your explanation, but it's tragic and backwards. It would make sense that a WordPress recipe blog wouldn't be developed with smaller browsers in mind. But 5% of Instagram's traffic is a gigantic amount of traffic, worth catering to. Wouldn't it be the big websites that have both the budget and the motivation to make their sites work across browsers? This feels like a market failure.

Call me a luddite, but I think if I were BigCorp Website Director, I'd be saying "If you have to do something special to make it work in Browser X vs Browser Y, you're getting too fancy, you don't need that crap."

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I worked in software development. There are browsers that are tested, and "recommended" and ones that are left to rot. the bigger a company is, the less they give a shit

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago

And they usually don't really give a shit in the first place about the website at all, the primary target is the app.