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Google, please read "Web Platform Design Principles - Priority of Constituencies": > The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the

Google, please read "Web Platform Design Principles - Priority of Constituencies": > The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. [RFC8890] > User needs come before the needs of web page authors, which come before the needs of user agent implementors, which come before the needs of specification writers, which come before theoretical purity. Ref: https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#priority-of-constit...

samtho 3y ago
Google as a company just does not care. No amount of pointing out violations of web standards or norms is going to make them care and statements such as this only amount to indignation-fueled, self-congratulatory rhetoric.
throw_m239339 3y ago
> > The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. [RFC8890] That ship sailed when the W3C accepted EME. The internet ceased to be about the end users, but for media company and their DRM. They didn't have to accept it as a standard, if Google and Netflix wanted their own DRM system then their problem, not the web.
Vinnl 3y ago
You can easily pretend you're respecting the priority of constituencies if you (i.e. Google) just say that the needs of web page authors are the needs of users ("otherwise the websites users want to visit would disappear").
- the_lego 3y ago
  I.e. home taping is killing music, VCRs should be illegal, etc.. Amazing how the same lie remains effective after being proven false so many times.
flangola7 3y ago
Yeah... executive stakeholders will fire you on the door spot if you come in with that sort of excuse. "How do you assure that our intellectual property, which is worth billions of dollars, is uncompromised?"

samtho 3y ago

Google as a company just does not care. No amount of pointing out violations of web standards or norms is going to make them care and statements such as this only amount to indignation-fueled, self-congratulatory rhetoric.

throw_m239339 3y ago

> > The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. [RFC8890] That ship sailed when the W3C accepted EME. The internet ceased to be about the end users, but for media company and their DRM. They didn't have to accept it as a standard, if Google and Netflix wanted their own DRM system then their problem, not the web.

Vinnl 3y ago

You can easily pretend you're respecting the priority of constituencies if you (i.e. Google) just say that the needs of web page authors are the needs of users ("otherwise the websites users want to visit would disappear").

the_lego 3y ago
I.e. home taping is killing music, VCRs should be illegal, etc.. Amazing how the same lie remains effective after being proven false so many times.

flangola7 3y ago

Yeah... executive stakeholders will fire you on the door spot if you come in with that sort of excuse. "How do you assure that our intellectual property, which is worth billions of dollars, is uncompromised?"