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by matmo 3072 days ago
I always find it interesting that Chrome is charging ahead full steam on experimental API's like this while most other browsers have given no intent to implement them yet.

Did Chrome come up with Houdini? Are they being brave or pushy here?
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foob 3072 days ago
It's a joint W3C Technical Architecture Group and CSS Working Group initiative, you can find a lot of details in this post from the Opera developer blog [1].

[1] https://dev.opera.com/articles/houdini/

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dassurma 3072 days ago
Author here :)

Houdini is a task force that consists of people from Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, Chrome, even IBM and Samsung. It’s by no means a Chrome-only thing or us being pushy.

Servo has an experimental implementation, but it’s the part of Servo that hasn’t been merged into FF. All participating browser vendors have given very positive signals about CSS Paint API.

Check http://ishoudinireadyyet.com/ to stay up to date :)

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matmo 3070 days ago
Thanks for the info. Love your youtube videos by the way :)
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mintplant 3072 days ago
> Did Chrome come up with Houdini?

Most certainly not. I know people at Mozilla who've been working on Houdini-related features for a while now (cf. https://wiki.mozilla.org/CSS/Houdini). Chrome is just the first to release here.

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