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Standardizing browser plug-ins is I think not the best idea; it means that many things will be difficult or impossible to do, due to needing features that are n
by zzo38computer 5y ago
Standardizing browser plug-ins is I think not the best idea; it means that many things will be difficult or impossible to do, due to needing features that are not standardized or cannot be standardized (due to having differences in different operating systems, differences in web engines, and other possible reasons including ones that I don't know yet). It might also perhaps make some things slow or otherwise less efficient than they should be.
- kennywinker 5y agoI see your point, but I see a huge benefit to standardization here. This will help with the 90% of tasks that all browsers are capable of - instead of two ways to do the same thing, you get one way - developers jobs get easier, cross compatibility actually works. For the remaining 10%, I agree there is some risk - but per the webextension group's charter (https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/charter.md) section on "Autonomy" > Given this, we expect browser vendors to offer APIs and capabilities beyond what's specified.