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This is a good question. Let me give you an example. Let's imagine for instance that Google develops something called "Google Pay". Let's now imagine that WHAT
by Yoric 8y ago
This is a good question. Let me give you an example.
Let's imagine for instance that Google develops something called "Google Pay". Let's now imagine that WHATWG works on something called "WebPay".
In a multiple-engines world, there would be pressure for Blink to support (and keep supporting) most major credit cards & payment mechanisms to let users pay using WebPay.
In a single-engine world, one single manager at Google will have sufficient power to decide that WebPay supports only Google Pay.
Feel free replace Google Pay and WebPay by any other technology strategic to Google.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoLet's not get confused. Blink is a rendering engine and not an API server.
- Yoric 8y agoThis kind of thing has stopped being true a long time ago. For all intents and purposes, web browsers are operating systems running web applications, taking care of security, etc. And all these Chromium-derived browsers are skins and utilities on top of Google's browser/OS.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoIt's still true and always will be. Blink is not a browser any more than the Linux kernel is a standalone operating system by itself with no attached software or applications.