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This is really wild. Thanks for sharing. Interesting seeing a bunch of huge Chinese Bug Tech companies starting to "standardize". Right now this feels more li
by rektide 4y ago
This is really wild. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting seeing a bunch of huge Chinese Bug Tech companies starting to "standardize".
Right now this feels more like an idea than a full built out spec. It's quite a grab bag of concerns. It feels like there's a ton of relevant specs they could have drawn from like Web Bundles, rather than loosely declaring vague intent to build yet another packaging system as a part of this mega-multi-spec. At least we some logical extensions: they use the existing Web App Manifest work as a basis, and throw a ton in top, which could be worse.
Overall I'm still really confused what this really represents. There's such a weird new UI paradigm, married to new bundling, with new linking, and a new life cycle... And more. It doesn't feel web. It looks like a native app toolkit that loosely references the web.
I don't think it will have any of the charitable rfc8890 "the Internet is for end user" benefits of the current web. It feels like it takes & I can't see advantages over what we have. Distribute some Custom Elements on your proprietary platform, if that's what you want, which seems to be the case. Don't build an entirely parallel non-web system, gross.
Split it up! I'd love to have a new widget spec! Widgets rocked! But this macro framework feels bad. It feels so native-platform like, such a large unit, which isn't how the web won.