Google Is Not God of the Web

Re:Google Is Not God of the Web by throwaway810 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:23AM (#23389504)

I find this tweet about how Google approaches web standards illuminating. To quote:

> 1. design a flawed API (it's fine! APIs are hard)

> 2. ship it in the most-used browser, despite objections

> 3. get cross-browser working group to fix the API

> 4. oops, too late, that would break the web

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Re:Google Is Not God of the Web by ksec on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:28AM (#23389517)

>5. Rally a group of developers and PR to bash Webkit as the only one not implementing those flawed API and name it as the new IE.

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Re:Google Is Not God of the Web by throwaway810 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:31AM (#23389905)

Too true. Not to mention that many of the APIs Google introduce are prone to tracking and spam.

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