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by echelon 458 days ago
Chrome pulling ahead of everyone else.

It's kind of scary that Chrome is so far ahead in web standards. It's almost as if web standards are designed to give Chrome the edge.

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There are web standards and then there are web standards.

There are some that Chrome just scribbles on a napkin, throws them into standards committees, and immediately releases even if the napkin cannot even be read by anyone. Because this benefits one or other group inside Google. See basically all hardware APIs.

With others Chrome sometimes just barges ahead even if the final shape of the standard isn't fully agreed on. YOLO. The links above are quite telling. Many of those have the following disclaimer: "This feature is experimental. Use caution before using in production."

Yeah, it's unilateral strong arming.

Google is a horrible steward of the supposed open web. They treat it like it's their kingdom. It more or less is.

An unmaintainable mess in 10 to 20 years.