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The browser world is a political, uncoordinated mess. For example WebTransport (an HTTP3 API) has been available on Chromium-based browsers for months, but it's
by mkl95 4y ago
The browser world is a political, uncoordinated mess. For example WebTransport (an HTTP3 API) has been available on Chromium-based browsers for months, but it's still on "Safari Technology Preview", and Firefox does not support it at all. You can probably find dozens of similar examples over the years.
- illiarian 4y ago> For example WebTransport (an HTTP3 API) has been available on Chromium-based browsers for months, but it's still on Perhaps because WebTransport is still not even anywhere close to be to a web standard? Perhaps because its status is literally, quote: --- start quote --- works in progress inside a W3C Group and are not required to have the consensus of the Group participants. These drafts have not received formal review and are not endorsed W3C. These drafts MUST NOT be cited as W3C standards and may or may not become W3C standards. --- end quote --- Just because it's shipped in Chrome does not make it a standard that every other browser has to implement immediately.
- mkl95 4y agoI agree with all your points. I was trying to highlight how dysfunctional it feels from my point of view (backend engineer).