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webplatform.org was a vendor-neutral response to the increasing commercialisation of Mozilla, but it wasn't successful, even with the backing of those organizat

• zerocrates 6y ago
  I remember thinking that the "web platform" thing seemed like a good idea, and I knew it kind of petered out, but I go back there now and it says it was around for 3 years and just Pointer Events was "Done," and you go look at the "Not Ready" HTML section and it's kind of a mess and there's double copies of all the elements, one in Japanese... I'm sure there's actually been some rot there so it's probably actually worse than it once was, but still. What they don't seem to have done is what I sort of assumed was going to happen: taken MDN, stripped the XUL stuff out of it and just airlifted it over, then make the now-duplicated MDN stuff just redirect to this new space and shifted their efforts there. I suppose the issue is getting consensus on doing that, a big move, from the MDN side but as Mozilla (at that time) was committing support to the new endeavor, I dunno, it just seems like the thing to do. Instead they kind of had a weak period of double effort and nobody shifted over, and this just died.