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How many websites rely on google-specific features not defined by W3C, WHATWG, ECMA etc. today?
by qwerty456127 7y ago
How many websites rely on google-specific features not defined by W3C, WHATWG, ECMA etc. today?
- icebraining 7y agoThose examples are the demonstration of my point! You had a mostly fixed standard that a small team could hope to reach - the W3C stuff - and the few top browser vendors decided to extend that with a continuous stream of new features chosen only by them - the WHATWG -, with the result that browsers who couldn't keep up got extinguished from the market. That the features aren't proprietary is besides the point: Google realizes that they don't need them to be proprietary, what matters is that others can't easily implement them all.