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Maybe so. The counterpoint is that several of APIs added to the web platform in the last ~8 years have already been deprecated: stuff like WebSQL, File System,

by niftich 10y ago

Maybe so. The counterpoint is that several of APIs added to the web platform in the last ~8 years have already been deprecated: stuff like WebSQL, File System, AppCache; there is no shortage of moving fast and breaking things when it comes to browser vendors. Something like a codec is comparatively trivial, because as a content server you can never rely on everyone supporting the same codec, so you have to stream among multiple formats anyway. When all of these JS APIs that FF or Chrome added were later deprecated and removed, everyone had to re-code their sites. So I'm hesitant to accept 'let's be really careful about this' as a rationale here.

mschuster91 10y ago
> The counterpoint is that several of APIs added to the web platform in the last ~8 years have already been deprecated: stuff like WebSQL, File System, AppCache And two of these have been replaced by complex, over engineered stuff. WebSQL was replaced by IndexedDB which can't do a simple equivalent of SELECT ... ORDER BY ... GROUP BY... without ending in callback hell, and AppCache was replaced by ServiceWorkers.