The essential question they've addressed from multiple data-sets is "is Chrome pulling so far ahead on features that other browsers can't keep up?" The data is complex, and the error bars are enormous.
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Their takeaways are stark: - Chromium is ahead; many divergent features are cases of intentional leadership - All browsers are delivering more compatible features every year - ...but the size of the accumulated gap is not the same between engines
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In particular, Firefox/Gecko is maintaining a pretty constant-sized gap. This may change with
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The standout in the data is WebKit. It's behind, and falling further away from the leaders every year.
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One way to think about this is that Apple, one of the richest tech firms on the planet, is being outspent on web platform development by a non-profit which has a harder task (true multi-OS, separate netstack, etc.).
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The usual remedy is competition: better engines provide benefits to users, who chose the browsers that embed them.
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So WebKit/Safari are a double-whammy: Apple is fundamentally under-invested and prevents others from picking up the pieces. It's not the new IE6, it's more like the new IE7-9: updates include needed features, and all progress is good, but not nearly enough.
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...which brings us to this post by
@serhiikulykov (via@justinfagnani): https://dev.to/webpadawan/beyond-the-polyfills-how-web-components-affect-us-today-3j0a … Developer input _should_ matter to engine developers; without good feedback/improvement loops and real competition, it's hard to make progress happen fast enough to matter.Show this thread
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@wanderview suggested visualizing http://caniuse.com data, and here it is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_On7g2EAUrVumIZr0PC-_iZszKyGT2_u1HbieThXjKA/mobilepresent?slide=id.g5626c9ea6d_225_0 … Looks quite similar, but weighted differently and makes it widening of the gap(s) less dramatic. Need to improve MDN/BCD data to gain more confidence in long term trends. -
Agree on more data. All-but-Safari is pretty large in Caniuse data, tho :-(
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