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Pushing forward on spec implementation before submitting to standards bodies is how the standards bodies want developers to make things. They want a "market of
by moron4hire 5y ago
Pushing forward on spec implementation before submitting to standards bodies is how the standards bodies want developers to make things. They want a "market of ideas", and only standardize the ideas that win out.
- pfarrell 5y agoI concur. I was just thinking about XMLHttpRequest [0] which was developed to support Outlook Web Access (years before Gmail). As developers discovered and played with it, it became the X in AJAX and eventually became a standard. That standardization happened after it had proved its usefulness and been applied in many different contexts by many different people. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
- naravara 5y ago> They want a "market of ideas", and only standardize the ideas that win out. In practice this means Chrome implements an idea and the idea "wins out" because Chrome does it, until Chrome does a new idea.