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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by firethief on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:39PM (#21837180)
"Already"? Is that something that usually happens as a project matures?
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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by chrisseaton on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:25PM (#21837662)
Yes? See the fracturing of what HTML browsers supported in the 90s, or what happened to XMPP, for example.
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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by firethief on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:58PM (#21849307)
HTML's middle ages were characterised by competing implementations of similar functionality. Inconsistency would be cause for concern, but incompleteness is expected.
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