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Just look at Chrome. On one hand, Google claims undying support for web standards, and on the other they're adding a bunch of non-standard features to their br
by dos1 15y ago
Just look at Chrome. On one hand, Google claims undying support for web standards, and on the other they're adding a bunch of non-standard features to their browser trying to get people tied in. This is very similar to MS and IE6 + ActiveX
- dpritchett 15y agoWhat are these non-standard features? Are they open sourced? How hard would it be to fold them into another browser, especially one built on Webkit?
- dos1 15y agoDart, native client, Gears was in there for awhile.
- dpritchett 15y agoGears seems like a perfect example. It predated the HTML5 local storage when Google found such a tool useful. Now the standard's caught up and Gears has been yanked in favor of the standard. Dart and NaCl could conceivably lead to evil, but I like the history shown with Gears/HTML5.
- abraham 15y agoDart is not in any release of Chrome. You can download a special experimental Chromium release with Dart support but it is not in the nightly.
- tomkarlo 15y agoThere's no reason that you can't both support standards and also offer non-standard technologies. The problem comes when you _don't_ support the standard but offer your own, non-standard implementation.