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Chrome had a vote when they were on WebKit. If your browser has a bunch of users, and if you can (and do) opt to block features in your fork, you're a major br

Chrome had a vote when they were on WebKit. If your browser has a bunch of users, and if you can (and do) opt to block features in your fork, you're a major browser. Microsoft has ripped a fair amount of stuff out of Chromium already. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-services-removed-changed-chromium-edge-browser https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-...

sjwright 8y ago
None of those Chrome features ripped out by Microsoft are web standards or web standard proposals. They are nearly all application support features or user conveniences; most of them tied in some way to the Google ecosystem. Google maintained their own fork of WebKit with countless feature deviations from the main tree. If Microsoft builds a track record of maintaining their own fork to hold back or modify actual web standard proposals written into the Blink engine then I would agree—they would regain eligibility into that list.
- tracker1 8y ago
  On a similar note, MS is/will offer many of those features themselves tied to ms/live services. Of course, I'd rather it this way as MS can at least have a browser that keeps pace with the rest of the world. Edge would be about on parity twice a year or so, and often the biggest of my headaches lately. Fortunately no longer having to support any IE currently (only browsers with async function support).
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
  Does the ability to do so give them a spot on the list, or do they have to flex the muscle before they can prove that it's there?
  - sjwright 8y ago
    Username checks out. :-) The list is descriptive, not prescriptive. If they haven’t flexed their muscle, it doesn’t matter if they’re on the list or not. If they do assert that influence, they’re on the list.

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Chrome had a vote when they were on WebKit. If your browser has a bunch of users, and if you can (and do) opt to block features in your fork, you're a major br

by dfabulich 8y ago

sjwright 8y ago
None of those Chrome features ripped out by Microsoft are web standards or web standard proposals. They are nearly all application support features or user conveniences; most of them tied in some way to the Google ecosystem. Google maintained their own fork of WebKit with countless feature deviations from the main tree. If Microsoft builds a track record of maintaining their own fork to hold back or modify actual web standard proposals written into the Blink engine then I would agree—they would regain eligibility into that list.
- tracker1 8y ago
  On a similar note, MS is/will offer many of those features themselves tied to ms/live services. Of course, I'd rather it this way as MS can at least have a browser that keeps pace with the rest of the world. Edge would be about on parity twice a year or so, and often the biggest of my headaches lately. Fortunately no longer having to support any IE currently (only browsers with async function support).
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
  Does the ability to do so give them a spot on the list, or do they have to flex the muscle before they can prove that it's there?
  - sjwright 8y ago
    Username checks out. :-) The list is descriptive, not prescriptive. If they haven’t flexed their muscle, it doesn’t matter if they’re on the list or not. If they do assert that influence, they’re on the list.