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> Google gets away with this a lot I think the point seen here is really that if the standards org doesn't impact the browsers and the browser in question has
by agloeregrets 5y ago
> Google gets away with this a lot
I think the point seen here is really that if the standards org doesn't impact the browsers and the browser in question has greater than 60% market share then that browser is the standards org and the W3C doesn't matter. Who is going to harm Google? How would the W3C enforce their standards? If most of your users are on Chrome and Chrome sets the feature set rather than the W3C, why wouldn't you just build to Chrome?
- pornel 5y agoBrowser vendors have always been driving the standards. W3C is correct to call their docs "recommendations". There was a brief nice moment in history when WebKit, Gecko, Trident, and Presto each had enough market share that all the vendors had to cooperate. Nowadays Trident and Presto are dead. Gecko is a great engine, but doesn't have enough market share to veto anything. So Blink can ship anything and claim it's supported "everywhere except Safari".
- WorldMaker 5y agoThe W3C gave up on many web standards like HTML and their process is just rubber stamping whatever WHATWG decides are standards and WHATWG seems to just rubber stamp whatever Google wants (more often than not).