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0 pointsmythhabit2y ago0 comments

And whatever Google decides they want to implement or support in Chromium will be the web default, even just how they interpret ambiguities or undefined behaviours - standards be damned. We have tried this before and it was not pretty.

That is why we need competing browser implementations.

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yard20102y ago

I'd argue for the opposite - we need strong standards and some methods to strictly enforce them. Governments could do that but the level of incompetency and politics are huge roadblocks

mythhabitOP2y ago

We have strong standards - but if there is only one implementation, that quickly becomes the standard no matter the text in the actual formalised standard.

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0 pointsmythhabit2y ago0 comments

That is why we need competing browser implementations.

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yard20102y ago

I'd argue for the opposite - we need strong standards and some methods to strictly enforce them. Governments could do that but the level of incompetency and politics are huge roadblocks

mythhabitOP2y ago

We have strong standards - but if there is only one implementation, that quickly becomes the standard no matter the text in the actual formalised standard.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse