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by illiarian 1160 days ago
> but perhaps such discourse should be private before being finalized as early commenters from Mozilla can have a premature influence on public opinion.

No, it shouldn't. It's a good thing all discussion is happening in the open. See how Firefox devs still have their reservations but Chrome already shipped it to prod completely ignoring any such reservations.
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Yoric 1160 days ago
FWIW, that's a pretty standard behavior for Chrome teams) and, as far as I understand, related to how they are evaluated within Google.

More spec proposals == good for your career.

Shipping a feature (even if it's non-standard) == good for your career.

Ensuring standard-compatibility == noop.

Source: I used to be a browser dev annoyed by how Chrome kept shipping non-standard features.

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sam_goody 1159 days ago
That's a feature, not a bug.

As long as Chrome has > 80% market share, the more non-standard features the ship, the more they cement their position.

Same as IE6, which was intentionally non-standards. Sites would be designed to work in IE, and would not work on Netscape.

Considering how much spying and how much lock-in Chrome provides for Google, anything that makes devs design for Chrome only is a huge advantage.

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