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What if Google were to strengthen the community ownership of Chromium and reduce theirs? If Chromium could indeed become a true standard, wouldn't it make every
by vidanay 8y ago
What if Google were to strengthen the community ownership of Chromium and reduce theirs? If Chromium could indeed become a true standard, wouldn't it make everyone's lives easier and then the only features we would all have to argue about are the truly value added aspects of the different implementations, and no longer have to worry about the rendering engine?
- scarejunba 8y agoAnd related to this, is “the implementation is the standard” bad if the implementation is open-source and community owned? I feel yes, but I can’t articulate why.
- belltaco 8y agoIt is because spec or implementation quirks and bugs will get papered over to save time and effort. The standard will become less exact over time and point to the source code of Chromium "just do it like Chromium, here's the link to the code", instead of having a clean spec with multiple standard implementations. Firefox will suffer even more as this happens. Its like Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, where the standard literally said in some places "how Word/Excel 95 implements this feature".