> It takes away from the point when it's untrue
What exactly are you saying is untrue? Can you quote the part?
There are comments[1] right in this same thread that confirm Pale Moon's statements about the inability to save or archive pages.
> Web Components is a standard. Multiple implementations exist.
Are you sure it's not Google that's controlling what's to become "standard" and Firefox that chases after them? And I say Firefox specifically, because, besides Safari, they seem to be the only other implementation on the market. Edge uses Chrome's engine. Indeed, with Chrome's 64% in market share[2], anything they do becomes "standard" automatically. With Firefox's 4.5%, I don't think they can do anything but chase after the Chrome guys to wherever they decide to take the web.
Isn't the point of a standard to help foster a rich ecosystem of diverse, interoperable implementations? I feel that a standard that evolves too fast (as made possible by an implementation monoculture) fails at fostering one.
This is what I believe Pale Moon is getting at when they say:
> The more additional "features" are tacked on to these components, the less likely it is for non-Google clients to be able to display sites in full or properly.
It gets harder and harder to make a new web engine from scratch. It's a step backwards from gaining a more diverse browser ecosystem.
The fact that Web Components specifically makes it harder to parse content (for archival or indexing purposes, etc.) is a separate issue, and for it, it doesn't matter if it's standard. In fact, it makes it worse.
They address this:
> Full disclosure: While it is absolutely true that it is in our direct interest that web developers don't use something we are still working on implementing ourselves (considering our limited capacity as a smaller non-profit community, which is likely the same for any other true Open Source/Libre projects out there), the impact of what is outlined above is much more far-reaching than just our own projects; not only is it pushing for a proprietary web that is vendor-locked, it also, as stated, becomes something that will be impossible to archive, save or process.
So, yeah, they have special interest, but that doesn't take away from their point.