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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by RealCodingOtaku on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:44PM (#34372066)
Also, "Goanna (Pale Moon), a fork of an old version of Gecko. At 0% market share and always at risk of not catching up with the newest web standards that Google invents".

Google don't make web standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards

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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by agloeregrets on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:13PM (#34372457)
Ahahah... We have someone who thinks that the W3C/OWF has any real power. That's hilarious.

This is what actually happens: 1. Google (Who is a member of both W3C and OWF) announces a plan/ships a feature. 2. With 80% of the browser market, people use it or get excited by it. 3. The W3C/OWF ratifies the feature as a standard.

This is literally how 90% of web standards happen today.

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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by scarface74 on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:38PM (#34375442)
No one in targeting US users are going to use a feature not supported by Safari/iOS
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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by pwdisswordfish9 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:47PM (#34396562)
What is "OWF" here? Open Web Foundation? If so, that's such a weird choice to mention. It has approximately nothing to do with browser standards. It's not even as if it's a ceremonial figurehead or something. It just has absolutely no place in this discussion...
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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by RealCodingOtaku on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:53AM (#34398810)
Being a member does not give anyone the authority to define a standard. One can propose and vote.

Take the recent example for instance, Web Standards Body W3C rejects Google’s ad targeting proposal[0]

Browser market share calculation is always dodgy[1].

[0] https://tittlepress.com/tech/2238586/

[1] https://www.sitepoint.com/how-browser-market-share-is-calcul...

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