Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by ohgodplsno on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:52AM (#29379853)

This list of standards also shows how Google attempts to make it even more impossible for anyone but them to maintain a browser. Shape detection API ? Seriously ? Picture-in-picture as a standard when it should be up to the OS/browser ? having the <input type="image"/> perform resizing and compression ?

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by kwertyoowiyop on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:13AM (#29380059)

They’re copying the old Microsoft playbook. Add so many APIs - the more complex the better - that nobody will be able to copy them all.

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by pseudalopex on Monday November 29, 2021 @02:15PM (#29383924)

Joel Spolsky called it fire and motion.[1]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by freediver on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:52AM (#29380495)

We can thank WebKit and Apple's policy around it on iOS for suppressing and holding back these attempts, as sites on average still _need_ to work on an iPhone.

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by Spivak on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:00AM (#29381349)

Shape detection is to have predictable QR code scanning across web apps, PiP as a browser API is necessary to enable it cross-platform. And image transformations are to try and collapse 100 js libraries of varying quality into a feature that people clearly want.

I’m a huge proponent of platforms aiming to be stable and largely not messing with shit but it has to be feature complete first.

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