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> open standards also slow down the development of new features On one hand, that is not right: open standards mean no walled garden, rather than each garden e
by pif 5y ago
> open standards also slow down the development of new features
On one hand, that is not right: open standards mean no walled garden, rather than each garden equally ugly.
On the other hand, that is exactly the point: no new feature can be used to buy the users' freedom to interact with customers of other services.
- pif 5y agoWould you like to go back to the dark times of IE6?
- CJefferson 5y agoAll the browsers since IE6 are built on open standards. It was stagnation and lack of openness (ActiveX) which caused IE6 to hang around so long.
- mschuster91 5y agoActiveX was relatively open-ish. Back in the days young me used a Visual Studio 6 off of eDonkey to develop applets in VB6. The problems were that: - unlike modern compiled code for the web - WASM and transpiled JavaScript - Java and ActiveX got executed with host privileges which made both an incredible entry point for malware such as "dialers" and early viruses. - many corporations and governments (e.g. Korea [1]) built their stuff in ActiveX or mandated its use in actual laws and regulations, while only MS Internet Explorer ever implemented ActiveX out of said security reasons. - many corporations and governments only ever coded and tested against IE6 which meant that their sites and products were dependent on IE6-specific quirks [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineramirez/2016/11/30/south-koreas-online-banking-system-is-stuck-in-1996/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineramirez/2016/11/30/south-...
- Narishma 5y agoAre you arguing with yourself?
- kmlx 5y ago> On the other hand, that is exactly the point: no new feature can be used to buy the users' freedom to interact with customers of other services so the point is a degraded experience? how can that be the point?