Post #2111742
2026-05-06 14:23 UTC
@yoasif @jaffathecake Sure, I think the PNaCl objections were of a different, less fundamental nature, but yeah, this is a question I've asked myself more often.
And sure, humans fundamentally look out for number 1 first. You're not wrong, but some do care about standards, I've been considering blocking Chrome on my own sites. Since they aren't commercial anyway and I don't care if people won't switch browsers in order to access them 🙂.
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@yoasif@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 14:30
@Schouten_B @jaffathecake I think what we have seen over the years in the standards world is that even if something isn't "standard", if enough developers use it, it will eventually become standardized. Look at what is happening with WebSerial in Firefox today for example. I'm guessing that Google knows this and is trying to induce demand for this by building it in. If they can fool enough developers to support the "standard", Google actually becomes the only standards compliant browser. 🎉
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@elfin@mstdn.social 2026-05-06 22:10
@Schouten_B @yoasif @jaffathecake Heh ... I used to block I.E. (when "Best when viewed with Internet Explorer" banners were all the rage).