It's not a good thing because this way, Google can increasingly dictate what the Internet should be. And they are.
Things like making Youtube slow on IE are, from one perspective, some kind of necessarily evil to get badly supporting browsers out, but it's also flexing that Google can practically decide what browsers will implement.
Let's say Google creates a new API and uses it on Youtube. Firefox will suddenly look like they're not competing. So what do they do? Include it of course. Youtube for a longer time used the non standardized Shadow DOM v0 API that only Chrome implemented (instead of using the standardized Shadow DOM v1 that everyone else targeted). It made Youtube look sluggish on Firefox but fast on Chrome.
I think all of this is harking right back to Microsoft being nonstandard with IE but people actually pulling it in because it has a high amount of users.
I've come to the conclusion that it's better this way, as long as... it's better. It's a tautology, but il what I want to say is that Edge promised a lot but didn't deliver enough, and Chrome is definitely a better browser - at least Chromium is a better engine.
When Google will start sitting on its success, another contender will probably appear. But, in the meanwhile, Microsoft's engineers have started working on Chromium's codebase. Like, there are literally issues assigned to folks from Microsoft.
It's not a good thing because this way, Google can increasingly dictate what the Internet should be. And they are.
Things like making Youtube slow on IE are, from one perspective, some kind of necessarily evil to get badly supporting browsers out, but it's also flexing that Google can practically decide what browsers will implement.
Let's say Google creates a new API and uses it on Youtube. Firefox will suddenly look like they're not competing. So what do they do? Include it of course. Youtube for a longer time used the non standardized Shadow DOM v0 API that only Chrome implemented (instead of using the standardized Shadow DOM v1 that everyone else targeted). It made Youtube look sluggish on Firefox but fast on Chrome.
I think all of this is harking right back to Microsoft being nonstandard with IE but people actually pulling it in because it has a high amount of users.
I've come to the conclusion that it's better this way, as long as... it's better. It's a tautology, but il what I want to say is that Edge promised a lot but didn't deliver enough, and Chrome is definitely a better browser - at least Chromium is a better engine.
When Google will start sitting on its success, another contender will probably appear. But, in the meanwhile, Microsoft's engineers have started working on Chromium's codebase. Like, there are literally issues assigned to folks from Microsoft.
So far, so good?
Well, I hope. But even if they get lazy sitting on their success, it will probably take just as long as with IE to get moving out of there again