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I'm getting tired of Google dictating how the web should work. That's the job of standards bodies. Google is increasingly taking the place of overbearing over
by Zelphyr 8y ago
I'm getting tired of Google dictating how the web should work. That's the job of standards bodies.
Google is increasingly taking the place of overbearing overlord that Microsoft embodied in the 90's and early 2000's.
- Operyl 8y agoGoogle is dictating how signing into their account system on their properties works, not login forms for _every single site_.
- Zelphyr 8y agoYou're right. My comment is out of place in this particular instance. But there are plenty of other examples where Google does have too much power and influence.
- greglindahl 8y agoGoogle's policies get exported. For a long time it was OK to drop email that came from a server without rDNS. Then gmail started allowing such emails, and then legit sites started sending email from servers without rDNS. In this case the export mechanism is Captcha v3.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoSo you're saying you're getting tired of everyone else copying Google's behavior?
- ndnxhs 8y agoGoogle is quickly becoming the login form for every website. And even if the website has its own login it will always have recaptca
- Operyl 8y agoI wouldn't blame Google for this phenomenon, though. They provided a solution, others were quick to jump to and use said solution. Might be better to complain to the sites following the herd then?
- bencoveney 8y agoIs there a standard relating to whether JavaScript should be optional?
- userbinator 8y agoAccording to the WHATWG: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html "Authors are encouraged to use declarative alternatives to scripting where possible, as declarative mechanisms are often more maintainable, and many users disable scripting." "Authors are also encouraged to make their applications degrade gracefully in the absence of scripting support."