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by AmericanChopper 1082 days ago
Nice idea but I’m not sure it would matter. Nobody implements standards, even when they’re properly defined.
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They do when there is a certification process. That’s the key to a well defined standard, a certification. The test suite is the real standard.
My personal experience with certified implementations is that they still tend to be not especially standardised. A test suite is just as susceptible to subversion as a written standard is. If that wasn’t true then unit tests is all we’d ever need to merge a PR.
Businesses still need their stuff to work on Chrome whether or not it's certified, so this is kind of a moot point.