I can’t figure it out.
Is it because the people making the browsers don’t care? Is it because we, as developers, already write hack code to get around things that don’t work in browser X and Y?
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I can’t figure it out.
Is it because the people making the browsers don’t care? Is it because we, as developers, already write hack code to get around things that don’t work in browser X and Y?
History
There was the Great Browser War, which was eventually won by the Internet Explorer, where vendors deliberately implemented features that weren’t compatible with other browsers to have those websites with those small badges Designed for Netscape 4.5.
By being incompatible and having unique features Microsoft won the browser war, at least for several years.
It’s hard
Have you ever tried to use complex CSS in a fairly standard-compatible browser? It’s hard to create anything because the standards are complicated. I guess the implementation is even more complicated.
Old websites
Many websites were designed with wrong HTML implementations in mind (see my first section). If all browsers just implemented 100% compatible rendering engines, many websites would break. They are trying to gradually get it right.