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What's the point of a standard if no one adopts it?
by barumi 6y ago
What's the point of a standard if no one adopts it?
- morelisp 6y agoConversely, what is the point of a standard that just documents what 2 out of 3 multi-billion companies want to do anyway?
- chkuendig 6y agoIt ensures that they do it the same way
- morelisp 6y agoUnless they disagree. Then they “standardize” both ways and the rest of us just have to cope.
- bawolff 6y agoWhat do you think standards are? Documenting the commonalities between implementations in order to gain interopability, is precisely the point of a standard.
- barumi 6y ago> Conversely, what is the point of a standard that just documents what 2 out of 3 multi-billion companies want to do anyway? Because it provides a fixed target that can be targeted with confidence by both developers and also the makers of any alternative browser (of which about 4 are still listed in global browser market share statistics). Those who complain that right now the browser market is dominated by a couple of players seem to be entirely oblivious to history.