Pinplay on March 6, Google, Microsoft, apple and Mozilla foundation announced their joint efforts to improve browser interoperability to ensure that chrome, edge, Safari and Firefox provide the same reliable and consistent web experience.

web. An article on dev details the new interoperability standard, called interop 2022. The ultimate goal of this standard is to help solve the “pain points” of development, so that developers can focus on building web experience instead of being trapped in solving various inconsistencies in browsers.

Interop 2022 is a benchmark that focuses on 15 different areas of modern browsers. Google, Microsoft, apple, Mozilla, bocoup and igalia have worked together to ensure that their browsers behave consistently in these areas, including cascade layers, color spaces and functions, dialog element, scroll bar controls, form controls, etc.

It is understood that this is the first cooperation among the four browser giants. In 2021, Google and Microsoft jointly launched the compat 2021 standard, which has finally been expanded to apple and Mozilla this year. Developers and users can view the consistency progress of chrome, edge, Safari and Firefox in the interop 2022 dashboard, which shows the compatibility score of each browser.