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by aluminum96 1570 days ago
Fair enough, but for some categories of apps (e.g. messengers), most people find them indispensable.
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octoberfranklin 1570 days ago
The problem is the "we must never break the web" attitude.

Once any feature, no matter how exotic, becomes part of "the web" it can never be removed from browsers ever, for the rest of time.

Either that policy must change, or we must be ultraconservative about accepting new "web standards". One or the other. Either choice has disadvantages, but we cannot choose neither.

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aaomidi 1570 days ago
You can turn off service workers and still access the website. Heck you can turn off Javascript and still make a ton of the web work.

Did adding location access, or Bluetooth access break the web for you?

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JimDabell 1570 days ago
Bluetooth access was never added to the web. It’s not on the standards track, it’s only implemented in Blink, and both Mozilla and Apple have refused to implement it. The web isn’t simply whatever Google decides to add to Chrome.
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octoberfranklin 1570 days ago
> Apple have refused to implement it.

Yes, and I'm glad they did.

The article at the top of this discussion is whining about the fact that Apple does this.

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