YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks

Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by douche on Monday January 11, 2016 @08:33AM (#10880640)

The only way new features seem to get into the standards is if some browser starts offering it, and it gains so much traction that the standards bodies can't ignore it.

Web standards seem, from where I'm standing, to be very post-hoc.

Indeed, I think that's the way it ought to be. How many times has it worked out well when you've fully specified something, before you attempt to actually build it? For me that number is very close to 0.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by rapind on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:30AM (#10880915)

I think this is the intent. A proposal is brought to TC39. It gets discussed. Someone champion's it (implements it in the wild). Adoption and usefulness are determined. New standards are accepted.

I think this is a much better practice than a bunch of dudes just deciding what browsers will support and how they support it without actually trying it on first.

It's pretty much all in the open. No need for conspiracy theories. The environment is significantly different than it was during the early IE days.

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262

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