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> I get the whole “don’t break the web” thing I wish Chrome devs did. They have been actively breaking the Web on multiple occasions. Just try to launch some u
by seba_dos1 4y ago
> I get the whole “don’t break the web” thing
I wish Chrome devs did. They have been actively breaking the Web on multiple occasions. Just try to launch some unmaintained HTML5 game from a few years ago and watch it trip over a non-working audio context. They reverted their window.alert change after deploying it only because the resulting breakage was too big to ignore. "Don't break the Web" is a myth, it's actually "don't break the Web so much that the user will notice enough things stopping to work after browser update to blame it on the browser".
- smoldesu 4y agoFrankly, I think the web should have stopped breaking itself years ago. The widespread adoption of JavaScript is a mistake fuelled by the trainwreck that we call modern app distribution. If the App Store/Play Store hadn't succeeded, there might still be a distinction between Apps and Websites.
- scubbo 4y agoFascinating perspective. Can you elaborate? In particular, given that Javascript predates App Stores by many years (I would hazard an unresearched guess at over a decade), and that Javascript serves myriad purposes in websites that have nothing to do with apps, this assertion requires extraordinary justification.