Google and Microsoft team up for browser compatibility

Google and Microsoft have announced a joint initiative called # Compat2021 to improve browser compatibility.

Google and Microsoft team up for browser compatibility
Folk art on browser compatibility

The # Compat2021 group includes several other members of the web community, but Google and Microsoft did not specify which ones. Only Igalia is mentioned, a team known for their commitment to the open source community.

The main focus of # Compat2021 is to eliminate incompatibilities between the five largest browsers. Incompatibility makes it difficult to create sites that work seamlessly in any browser and look the same. Google and Microsoft themselves will be focusing on the Chromium platform that underpins Chrome and Edge.

To begin with, the working group identified the key challenges for universal browsers to work. The five areas that developers will primarily focus on are CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS position: sticky, CSS aspect-ratio property, and CSS Transforms.

So, because of CSS Flexbox, elements on websites stretch differently in different browsers, it is planned to eliminate this and bring them to one correct appearance. Improvements to CSS Grid will allow for animated grid layouts on Chromium and WebKit engines, while this feature is currently only supported in Gecko. CSS position: sticky will fix the placement of objects on the site the same in all browsers, and so on.

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