Post #1365429

2022-12-16 20:38 UTC

@robin @slightlyoff @Edent If I read Alex's point correctly, it's more along the lines of: if the Chrome team wanted to engage in a bad-faith effort to disempower non-browser-makers, they'd just say "fuck it," abandon W3C participation altogether, and implement what they want in Chrome, which has enough market share to unilaterally create de facto standards.

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@robin@mastodon.social 2022-12-16 20:52

@abr @slightlyoff @Edent Are you describing the WHATWG or the WICG there? Sorry, just being facetious — as I said, I don't think that that's what's happening here 😄

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@davidshq@hachyderm.io 2022-12-16 20:49

@abr @robin @slightlyoff @Edent I wonder if the mass exodus from Twitter would cause Google pause on that front...I wouldn't think they'd want to give reason for folks to jump ship.

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@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social 2022-12-16 20:58

@abr @robin @slightlyoff @Edent This is coming. Probably next year. iOS's browser restrictions has basically forced Google to participate in the standards process for things to work on iPhones. As soon as it's possible to run Chromium on the iPhone, developers will start insisting people install Chrome to access x, y, or z websites, and the need to obey web standards will mostly fall away.

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@hallam@infosec.exchange 2022-12-17 01:45

@abr @robin @slightlyoff @Edent Like Netscape used to do.

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2022-12-17 19:40

@abr @robin @slightlyoff @Edent And that's precisely why we're all discussing this on Twitter, and not some open standards platform. Oh, wait...

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