Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives

Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by advisedwang on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:07PM (#50444758)

Chrome already has too much power in the browser standards world. The last thing we need is everyone's LLMs to follow Chrome team's guidance on how to do web development. This road leads back to "To view this site, please view in [DOMINANT BROWSER]"

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by philipwalton on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:15PM (#50444860)

Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge are also contributors to this project, so this is a cross-browser initiative to help improve how agents build for the web.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by troupo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:00PM (#50446902)

That's why it seems to skip the most egregious of Chrome-only APIs and focuses on areas where there's large cross-browser agreement.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by philipwalton on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @06:57PM (#50448023)

Cross-browser compatibility has been a guiding principle for this project from the start. See: https://youtu.be/bo3i0FzDUYo?si=EqIgY_Kh_r_hSgdE&t=686

Also Mozilla only joined in the last few weeks, so they haven't yet had a big influence on the project (though I expect they will going forward).

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by incrudible on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:27AM (#50451310)

I have a bridge to sell you.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:05PM (#50448974)

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by philwelch on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:08AM (#50451625)

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by jefftk on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:28AM (#50452152)

Firefox is not a skin of Chrome; it has the only browser engine in common use that's not descended from KHTML.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by super256 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:17PM (#50444896)

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by 0o777 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:21PM (#50444960)

Both Mozilla and the Google Chrome team are part of the Web Baseline project and this project. They only recommend best practices supported by Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.

https://web-platform-dx.github.io/baseline/

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by simonjgillespie on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:41AM (#50452246)

No Netsurf. I guess thats why you also switched off access on google search pages too because unless a browser is bigger than 1G its not a real browser?

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by xnx on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:52PM (#50445420)

Not my opinion, but I do wonder if sharing from a different repo would feel more neutral.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by tonymet on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:01PM (#50446911)

Let the best API win. why hold them back?

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by girvo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:05PM (#50448075)

Because Google/Chrome should’ve been split up under antitrust grounds, instead of the “too hard let’s not bother” judgment they ended up with.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by tonymet on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:34PM (#50448314)

because the $200m+ spent public & private on the Microsoft antitrust did a public service? talk about a farce and a waste of resources.

Google hardly has a monopoly. The app experience is very diverse. If anything, Apple is much more anticompetitive than Google.

Or is it that you resent any success?

Google gives away Chromium for free. Microsoft & Linux distros use it.

Thanks, this is one of the most laughable comments of the day.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by girvo on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:30AM (#50450677)

You’re incredibly rude.

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Re:Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto... by defrost on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:34AM (#50450707)

Please omit snark on HN. The guidelines make it clear they're trying for something better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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