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Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 14 May 2026
  • browser, standards, Chrome, Safari, Firefox
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https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

Standards were supposed to eliminate browser-specific code. We dug ourselves out of the IE era, celebrated, and then built exactly the same hole again around a different browser. Only now the browser-specific code lives in the browsers that aren’t dominant, patching over a web built for the one that is.

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