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Re:Safari tries to fill username by eru on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:15AM (#27313626)
Why? The spec ain't God given.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by irjustin on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:19AM (#27313655)
That's how we ended up with decades of Internet Explorer.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by monsieurbanana on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:33AM (#27313741)
> Or they should go and push for spec change
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by thaumasiotes on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:59AM (#27313888)
That attitude basically endorses the idea that the spec is God-given. There's nothing so important about getting the spec changed before you start ignoring it.
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Re:Safari tries to fill username by monsieurbanana on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:20AM (#27324044)
> That attitude basically endorses the idea that the spec is God-given

That's a tad over-dramatic. And context matters, surely I don't need to remind you why Google is spending so much money on Chrome?

Having a company control 70% of the browser market is bad enough, we don't need people telling them to go ahead and ignore specs, remember that they don't make those decisions out of goodwill for us.

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