Browsers: from competition to collaboration
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My slides from WebExpo 2022 keynote for Frontendisti.cz stage. The world is changing, the frontend is changing, and we have to change with it. What makes 2022 special? Take a look at it through the eyes of a representative of the Frontendisti.cz community. https://www.webexpo.net/prague2022/talk/frontend-keynote
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- 1. Browsers: from competition to collaboration Keynote for WebExpo 2022 (Frontendisti.cz collab) @machal
- 2. 1977 I am 45 years old this year. I was born in 1977.
- 3. In the same year, NASA launched the Voyager 1 mission. Voyager is still floating in space and partially works. Same with me. No, really. Sometime I feel really anchient.
- 4. Browsers But I'm not here to talk about myself. I want to talk about our beloved browsers. I want to talk about what's changed so much about browsers.
- 5. 1996 My relationship with browsers began in 1996.
- 6. 11 % 89 % Netscape ETC When I started at college, the majority of users were using the Netscape browser. I hated Netscape, it was full of bugs.
- 7. 7 % 4 % 89 % Netscape MSIE ETC Fortunately, a new and progressive browser has entered the market – Microsoft's Internet Explorer. 😱
- 8. 2000 I graduated from college in 2000. By then everything was different.
- 9. 14 % 86 % MSIE Netscape Most of the market belonged to Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
- 10. 2004 Four years later, it was even worse.
- 11. 5 % 95 % MSIE Mozilla By then It seemed like there was only one browser in the world. Internet Explorer.
- 12. Developers started putting icons like this on their sites. But it was strange because Microsoft was not participating in web standards and creating its own.
- 13. 2022 This year is completely different. All big tech companies, including Microsoft, are working on web standards. But we have another problem here. Different browsers have different priorities. So we're waiting a long time for some new features.
- 14. 3 % 5 % 4 % 20 % 68 % Chrome Safari Edge ETC Firefox We have two major browsers - Chrome and Safari - and several smaller ones. Internet Explorer doesn't exist anymore. As developers we have nothing to complain about. Safari has taken over the role of Explorer.
- 15. But not for long. In 2021, Apple started working more on Safari. They hired lots of developers and things started to change. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3649769/apple-wants-to-know-why-you-hate-safari.html
- 16. A year ago, Safari was the worst in terms of adopting new features. https://wpt.fyi/compat2021?feature=summary
- 17. But this year Safari started to be far better than Firefox.
- 18. I got the chart from the Compat 2021 initiative. It's a group of people trying to unify browser development. They determine which features from web standards are most important. https://web.dev/compat2021/
- 19. • Grid • position:sticky • aspect-ratio() Thanks to them, we have a number of new features in modern browsers. For example, they removed bugs in Flexbox and Grid. They also added position:sticky or the CSS property aspect- ratio.
- 20. This year's initiative is called Interop 2022. It seeks to focus on new features and get them into browsers. https://web.dev/interop-2022/
- 21. • CSS Cascade Layers • <dialog> • CSS color functions • Subgrid • … Thanks to this, we can now present features like CSS cascade layers or element dialog in HTML on this stage. And we look forward to more news.
- 22. This is the current status. As you can see, smaller browsers can now compete with Chrome. I think this is great for us as web developers! https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022?stable
- 23. If browsers can do it, so could we. Less competition and more cooperation.
- 24. Enjoy WebExpo collab with Frontendisti! Welcome to the community driven stage.