eli5 Why do some websites work on specific browsers? For example Chrome and not Firefox.
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HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language, and like with all other languages, not everyone (browser) can communicate in that language with same efficiency and fluency. Some words are confusing, misunderstood by different people, vague, or brand new no one understands completely. Yet everyone speaks it and somewhat communicate with each other.
Back in the day people designed their pages for Internet Explorer because it was already installed and many corporations didn’t let employees to install anything else. IE also tried to dominate web by utilizing this loophole and introducing Windows/IE only features. Now, Chrome is the new IE. It has just became the thing it was created to destroy.
Todays most browsers are much more compatible since internet is way faster, so communicating/collaborating is easier, but mostly browsers yielded to Chrome’s influence and switched to same rendering engine: WebKit/Blink. Opera, Brave even Edge uses Chromium’s rendering engine, and WebKit is essentially Safari.
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