Re:KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
by danShumway on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:48PM
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Implementation is great. It's not the same thing as shipping a feature to end users.
Once you ship a feature to end users and start advertising it, changing it becomes very, very difficult because you risk breaking the web just by evolving the standard. If you're trying to create a joint standard, you can't start by flipping the switch and turning the feature on for regular people and production-facing sites.
That would be like passing a law and enforcing it months before Congress voted on it, simply because, "without real-world trials, how do we know the law will work?"
Once you ship a feature to end users and start advertising it, changing it becomes very, very difficult because you risk breaking the web just by evolving the standard. If you're trying to create a joint standard, you can't start by flipping the switch and turning the feature on for regular people and production-facing sites.
That would be like passing a law and enforcing it months before Congress voted on it, simply because, "without real-world trials, how do we know the law will work?"