W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin

Re:W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domain... by ampdepolymerase on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:36AM (#26751882)

The standard and governing bodies has no right to demand anything. The internet is not a democracy. If they want something put the money where their mouth is. Until W3C ships their own browser engine and gets it into the hands of customers, relevance is nothing more than a nice-to-have.

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Re:W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domain... by derefr on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:40AM (#26751947)

There are no members of the W3C other than browser (and web-server) manufacturers. When the members of the W3C decide on something, that’s the browser manufacturers deciding on that thing.

The real question, I suppose, is whether the people who interact with the W3C/WHATWG/etc. have decision-making power within the organizations they nominally represent. If not, then these bodies are kind of like the UN: nominally a place for treaties to be made, but in practice a place for ambassadors to glad-hand one-another while their leaders ignore the decisions they make.

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Re:W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domain... by stjohnswarts on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:04PM (#26752290)

You seriously want google to be defining what the internet is given their current and past activities and abuses? There is no way that could ever be a good thing. If they ever do expect a 50% carve out for targeted ad technologies.

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