Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by nostrademons on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:22PM
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In practice, the causality is even more delayed than you describe. Browser vendors implement what they want, and then once two or more vendors have implemented a feature and some developers have adopted it, it gets considered for standardization. Standards which are written without a working implementation are widely ignored; there's a whole graveyard around the W3C (see eg. the Semantic Web) where somebody wrote a standard and nobody cared.
If your position is "anyone can do anything" as long as it has some "perceived good" - in your opinion, then okay, that is your position and I have no argument.
Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by peterwwillis on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:38PM
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> The "standards" are created by the browser makers
You're half right: standards are created by W3C & IETF, which includes browser makers.
> It is up to them to decide what the standards are by choosing what to implement
Kind of like IE and ActiveX, right? Right?
............Right?
The "standards" are created by the browser makers. It is up to them to decide what the standards are by choosing what to implement.
For instance, Apple can decide to not allow 3rd party cookies, which "breaks the web" and "doesn't follow standards" but it is also the right thing to do.