W3C says WebKit's dominance is damaging the web

The current dominance of Google Chrome and Apple's Safari browser is damaging the standards of the web, according to Daniel Glazman, the co-chairman of the W3C's CSS standards working group. Chrome and Safari share the WebKit engine, and together currently account for around a third of all browser use. Glazman says that web programmers often overlook other browsers when they use newer CSS features designed specifically for WebKit, creating styles with no alternatives for other browsers to fall back on.
Representatives from Internet Explorer, Opera, and Mozilla have indicated that they see little option outside of implementing the WebKit-specific labels themselves, otherwise the increasing pr... »read more

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