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> They didn't have to invent a new API full of breaking changes to do it. Isnt that what google normally does? Instead of fixing an existing product, throw it
by orangepanda 5y ago
> They didn't have to invent a new API full of breaking changes to do it.
Isnt that what google normally does? Instead of fixing an existing product, throw it away and introduce a new shiny thing, that does the same thing.
- somehnacct3757 5y agoOr in this case, does less. I think if Manifest V3 had 1:1 capabilities with MV2, less people would care. Google has oodles of devs and infinite money; so their culture doesn't balk at rewrites. In the real world, treading water to stay on the Chrome Web Store with MV3 will muscle out huge swaths of a company's product roadmap. Our execs didn't even know what manifest versions are a year ago. Now Google is on everyone's shit list. If your API change is so jarring that non-technical people have to think about it, you're doing it wrong! This is less of an API change and more of a platform redefinition.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> Instead of fixing an existing product, throw it away and introduce a new shiny thing, that does the same thing. Introduce a new thing, that does the same thing but worse*. Google Music being replaced with YouTube Music is a great example of this.