Re:A Clean Start for the Web
by Animats on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:38AM
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"Stop, already" might be a good idea.
As in, no more of the stuff on this list [1] without really broad buy-in. We're seeing Google do "expand, engulf, devour" to the Web.
Already, it's hard to send mail unless you're a big player. Writing a browser is a huge job. Just fetching an HTTP file is now complicated enough that people run "curl" as a subprocess to do it.
As in, no more of the stuff on this list [1] without really broad buy-in. We're seeing Google do "expand, engulf, devour" to the Web.
Already, it's hard to send mail unless you're a big player. Writing a browser is a huge job. Just fetching an HTTP file is now complicated enough that people run "curl" as a subprocess to do it.
[1] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/