2.11.2012

W3C Chairman: mobile browser WebKit standard threat to the opening of Web

By Christina Zihui


World Wide Web Consortium Co-Chair Daniel Glazman, compared with IE, the dominant position of Apple and Google mobile browser on the Web open is even worse.

Glazman said, we use the updated CSS programmers that will ignore other browsers, even if other browsers support CSS function. As a result, Firefox, IE and Opera browser will likely be forced to mimic other browsers, the "open Web" concept will be abandoned. Browser manufacturers indicate that they have forgotten the painful lessons of the Microsoft IE6 dominant Web.

This issue revealed at a meeting of the CSS Working Group on Monday. At this meeting, representatives of Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft said they are willing to support the WebKit mimic other browsers. After years of effort to make Microsoft back to the world standard, the CSS dispute in part of the standardization process is interrupted.

Glazman said, it occupies an absolutely dominant position in the browser "in the future, IE6 or the Web, from a technical point of view, the Web is the only support IE6 and support for other browsers website constitutes very dissatisfied. Now, IE6 a dominant situation has ended, but other problems have emerged. "

The "WebKit is Apple's Safari and Google Chrome browser rendering engine has been widely used in the iPhone, the iPad and Android devices are the mobile Web world possession of absolute dominance of the browser, mobile Web only support WebKit and support other site constitutes browser, users are very dissatisfied. "

The problem lies in the way of the development of Web standards. The new browser is usually the introduction of new technologies eventually that become the standard, but the first of these new technologies appear in a browser.

Web programming staff in the use of these experimental techniques, they must be in command before adding a prefix. For example, "-webkit" that support the WebKit-based browser on the leading edge. Once the new features become part of the standard, supported by all browsers, programmers no longer need to use the prefix, because they no longer need to worry about is the code developed for a specific browser.




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