Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents

Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by lonelappde on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:52PM (#22606952)

But what are they afraid of?

I can run Firefox or whatever for modern websites, and Pale Moon or 10 year old sites running deprecated technology.

No one will ever build a website using WebComponents and NPAPI, so what's the problem?

The only possible explanation I see is that Pale Moon team desires and thinks that Pale Moo can become more popular than Firefox or Chrome simply by hoarding their discarded old tech. It's delusional, like selling computers with parallel ports and VGA cables and begging people not to use DislayPort monitors.

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Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by smnthermes on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:51PM (#22609506)

> No one will ever build a website using WebComponents

WebComponents is adopted by Chromium (and with difficulty by Firefox).

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Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by AgentME on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#22609627)

I think they meant that no one will ever build a site using WebComponents and NPAPI together, since NPAPI has already been discontinued before WebComponents has taken off.

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Re:Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents by eropple on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:04PM (#22609666)

I think you missed an association there. (WebComponents AND NPAPI)

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