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This list of standards also shows how Google attempts to make it even more impossible for anyone but them to maintain a browser. Shape detection API ? Seriously
by ohgodplsno 5y ago
This list of standards also shows how Google attempts to make it even more impossible for anyone but them to maintain a browser. Shape detection API ? Seriously ? Picture-in-picture as a standard when it should be up to the OS/browser ? having the <input type="image"/> perform resizing and compression ?
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoThey’re copying the old Microsoft playbook. Add so many APIs - the more complex the better - that nobody will be able to copy them all.
- pseudalopex 5y agoJoel Spolsky called it fire and motion.[1] [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
- freediver 5y agoWe can thank WebKit and Apple's policy around it on iOS for suppressing and holding back these attempts, as sites on average still _need_ to work on an iPhone.
- Spivak 5y agoShape detection is to have predictable QR code scanning across web apps, PiP as a browser API is necessary to enable it cross-platform. And image transformations are to try and collapse 100 js libraries of varying quality into a feature that people clearly want. I’m a huge proponent of platforms aiming to be stable and largely not messing with shit but it has to be feature complete first.