[cubefox]

> I think we have Chrome to thank for modern web design.

I think it's less the dominance of Chrome itself and more the demise of Internet Explorer. The problem was that it didn't get updated like normal software, it was somehow tied to the OS, so old outdated versions lingered around for far too long, limiting what technologies web developers could use.

> There are still edges cases (which JPEG replacement will win?!), but they are now blessedly few and far between.

Last I heard was that the Benevolent Dictators at Google decided that AVIF shall win.

[Hamuko]

>The problem was that it didn't get updated like normal software, it was somehow tied to the OS, so old outdated versions lingered around for far too long, limiting what technologies web developers could use.

Now that mantle is taken up by Safari, especially on mobile.

[cubefox]

Oh really, does Apple repeat that mistake? I assumed Safari would get updates like a normal app.

[Hamuko]

They're a bit more separated on macOS but still not really separate. On iOS, it's very much tied to the iOS/iPad OS version.

There's perfectly functional iPads out there that are stuck on an iOS version and are thus e-waste as more and more Internet becomes inaccessible to them.

[cubefox]

Okay, Microsoft made a mistake with their IE policy, maybe put of ignorance, but Apple repeating that mistake with Safari has no excuse.