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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple together to improve the interoperability of web platforms

Four of the most important web browser vendors have agreed to participate together in Interop 2022, an initiative aimed at improving interoperability between web platforms.

Microsoft (Edge), Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox) and Apple (Safari) will work hand in hand to improve the interoperability of their web browsers. The objective is to facilitate the work of web developers and ultimately improve the user experience of all Internet users, regardless of their preferred software for browsing the Internet.

Better compliance with web standards

Interop 2022 is first and foremost a series of benchmarks to which the four browsers are regularly subjected. These fifteen tests measure web standards, which makes it possible to evaluate the shortcomings or the delay of a software compared to the others. The engineers responsible for developing browsers can thus focus their work on improving a particular feature.

Currently, the stable versions of the four browsers are quite distant from each other. Tests show that with a score of 50, Safari is far behind Firefox, leading with 69. Chrome and Edge share the same score (61), which is quite logical: both are dependent on the same engine, Chromium, to work.

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On the other hand, the experimental versions of these same browsers (version alpha Where canary) place them in a pocket handkerchief, between 71 and 74, with again a premium for Firefox. These scores indicate that future stable versions of this software will be much closer to each other in terms of standard web technologies: a website or an online service will be displayed in the same way, its functions will be similar.

This year, the four editors will work on 15 areas such as colors in style sheets or scrolling. For developers as for Internet users, this joint work is essential to ensure that a website will have the same behavior from one browser to another. This does not prevent each from retaining its exclusive features, such as iCloud access in Safari for example.

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