Author: Michael
Date: September 19, 2008 at 12:36 pm

The proliferation of web browsers is a real pain from a development standpoint.  Every new browser is yet another platform to be supported.  Every site now has yet more idiosynchrocies to take into account.  So when Google announced Chrome recently, I was curious to see what the carnage would be for our design and development efforts.

As it turns out, there’s none at all.  Chrome uses the WebKit engine, which is also used by Apple’s Safari.  So pages visually render very similar to how they would in Safari.  Because our design and development focuses on using web standards, we don’t employ a lot of browser-specific hacks in our (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or otherwise.

When a new browser comes along that also is focused on implementing web standards, the cost of supporting that additional platform is…zero.  Somehow I suspect the same will not be said when Internet Explorer 8 goes out of beta.

Fighting against standards is fighting against the tide at this point.  Futile and exhausting.

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Categories: web design, web development