Re:Is Chrome the New IE?
by fenomas on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:05AM
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This is plain bad faith. If you know anything about web standards, you already know the W3C process requires candidate implementations and interoperability before a standard reaches its later stages. Other browsers implemented the standards earlier because they participated in that process; calling those implementations "non-standard chrome/etc features" is absurd.
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Later stages? These features often get implemented at the working draft stage - a stage where major changes can still happen, it has no consensus or even wide review.
Google implementing a draft they themselves authored with minimal review doesn't make it standard just because w3c publishes the draft.
When chrome/firefox/opera all implement a working draft and demonstrate interoperability, they are participating in the standards process. Trying to make it sound like they're doing something non-standard when they do that is simply dishonest.