[paulmd]

Massive FUD/off-topic whining considering it’s already in nightly.

Yes, not everyone is as thrilled about the browser becoming an OS and both of the other players have pretty much declined to implement the standards chrome forced through.

Like yes if you let yourself be tied to proprietary chrome features you will probably be tied to chrome. It’s weird how the HN set embraces the internet explorer/activeX combo of the modern era so openly, to the extent of whining that others don’t implement it/are behind on compatibility - like yes, that’s the point of embrace/extend/extinguish and a quasi-proprietary standard, to provoke exactly your reaction.

I wonder if there is some equivalent to this on the social media of the time, was there some subset of users who really really loved activeX and would only use browsers that supported it? it’s what I need to do my banking, how could I use anything else!?