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> Members of a standards body are accountable for their actions. Yes, yes they are. This also means that none of the browser implementors should be on the stee

> Members of a standards body are accountable for their actions. Yes, yes they are. This also means that none of the browser implementors should be on the steering committee by your criteria. > Endorsing a standard, then undermining it Let's see about that endorsement and "undermining": --- start quote --- Now I'm going to re-iterate that Apple objects to extending subclasses of HTMLElement using is= as currently spec'ed for various reasons we've stated in the past and this feature won't be supported in WebKit. ... I'll note that we've vocally and repeatedly objected to having is=, and in fact, stated publicly that we won't implement this feature, but somehow the WG kept it in the spec. I wouldn't call that a consensus. We extremely reluctantly agreed to keep it in the spec until it gets removed at risk later. ... we're against subclassing subclasses of HTMLElement (e.g. HTMLInputElement, etc...) for various reasons, so WebKit isn't going to support this feature anyway. Extension of builtin elements are much better served with mixins. ... And this entire comment: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/509#issuecomment-230700060 https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/509#issuecommen... --- end quote --- So did Safari endorse Web Components? Yes. And they still do. See, for example, Template Instantiation Proposal (among many other things): https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals/Template-Instantiation.md https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal... Did Safari ever support `is=`? No. Let's see their endorsement again: --- start quote --- The thing is, Apple has been objecting to this feature from the get go, and the only reason it remains in the spec is because Google kept objecting to it being removed from the spec. The fact of matter is, we only agreed to keep it in the spec to wait until the feature becomes at-risk at CR stage so that it can be removed. --- end quote --- I would also recommend you read this comment on the whole process and "obligation to implement" and other things (it's not from Apple): https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/509#issuecomment-233589604 https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/509#issuecommen... > and you can draw a straight line from Apple’s overwhelming institutional arrogance to Safari being the “new IE”. There's definitely a PR manager in Chrome who gets a bonus every time this line is repeated. See breaking the web forward: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

inopinatus 5y ago
This extended excusing of bad behaviour doesn’t wash. You can’t reject part of a standard, when you’re one of the stewards of it. Either you’re committed, or you’re not. Like cabinet government, debates prior to decision don’t factor into your necessary commitment to the decision once it is made. A lower moral standard is only available for those who don’t claim to be the high priests. Trivialising the issue with whataboutism doesn’t make Apple any less culpable. Sure, shit sticks to other vendors too. Google often behave appallingly, but this’ll be my first and last mention of them in this thread, and I feel just fine about that having given them plenty of stick in the past. My comment was and remains about WebKit.

inopinatus 5y ago

This extended excusing of bad behaviour doesn’t wash. You can’t reject part of a standard, when you’re one of the stewards of it. Either you’re committed, or you’re not. Like cabinet government, debates prior to decision don’t factor into your necessary commitment to the decision once it is made. A lower moral standard is only available for those who don’t claim to be the high priests. Trivialising the issue with whataboutism doesn’t make Apple any less culpable. Sure, shit sticks to other vendors too. Google often behave appallingly, but this’ll be my first and last mention of them in this thread, and I feel just fine about that having given them plenty of stick in the past. My comment was and remains about WebKit.