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The W3C helps keep the web an open technology but faces difficulties like Google Chrome dominance
This is a really interesting article, HotCakeX. While Google does have a large portion of the browser usage, there are a lot of other perspectives that show up in the W3C work groups. Microsoft is also very active in these work groups and together we are trying to make the web better for everyone. Thanks - Elliot
This is a really interesting article, HotCakeX. While Google does have a large portion of the browser usage, there are a lot of other perspectives that show up in the W3C work groups. Microsoft is also very active in these work groups and together we are trying to make the web better for everyone. Thanks - Elliot
That's great, wasn't aware of that!
hopefully with the new Edge browser, the browser market share will be balanced.
once I read somewhere a quote saying that "people hate Google Chrome but people use it anyway", I think it's because of the lack of a good competitor with enough influence in various markets (laptops, PCs, phones etc), such as Microsoft.
I mean Firefox is decent, but companies like Mozilla or Opera don't produce devices that people use everyday so they don't have the required grip on the market to fight against a tech giant like Google.
Another sign that Google is trying to dictate standards for everyone.
https://www.slashgear.com/google-chrome-will-soon-block-insecure-content-in-https-pages-03594044/
"Starting with Chrome version 80, which will be released to the development channel in January 2020, will mark even HTTPS pages with mixed content as Not Secure."
I guess after that, people will think that if Chrome marks a page as non secure then it IS definitely non secure (considering the big market share of chrome), and if other browsers do not mark it as non secure then those browsers are not good or secure enough thus Chrome is better!..
trust me there are a Lot of people out there with that way of thinking..."Google has been pushing for web page owners and developers to move over to secure and encrypted HTTP, a.k.a. HTTPS, by clearly marking insecure web pages in Chrome. It serves both as a warning for users as well as something like a shame campaign and it seems to have at least worked. "
A blog or article page that gets No information from the visitors and has No login/sign up feature does Not need HTTPS.
HTTPS tries (and Fails lots of times) to prevent eavesdropping so for example when you sign in to a website and enter your username and password, the transmitted data won't be able to be read by a 3rd party. that is totally useless for those type of websites that do not get any information from the visitors. but Google forces everyone to pay money and buy useless SSL certificates. this is Not right.