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> due to the complexity of everything? Google pushes over 400 new web APIs per year, often with no true specs and with no input or consensus from other browser
by troupo 2y ago
> due to the complexity of everything?
Google pushes over 400 new web APIs per year, often with no true specs and with no input or consensus from other browser vendors.
So. Who is responsible for complexity?
- hollerith 2y agoYeah, I'm not even a web dev, but even I can see that Google wants to make the web stack ever more complicated and is has been good at getting what it wants. I always thought they do that to make it more expensive for anyone to compete with them. E.g., want to introduce a new operating systems for phones? No one will use it unless it has a web browser. So you have to hire a thousand expensive developers to create and maintain the browser (or maybe somehow induce Mozilla to port Firefox to it, which would probably also be expensive).
- troupo 2y agoThey also do it depending on who wins internal turf wars. When Chrome/ChromeOS wins, we get a hundred hardware APIs. When ads win (they always win) we get FLOC and other bullcrap. etc.
- bigyabai 2y agoI don't think there would be demand for extraneous web APIs if the native ones were a good enough replacement. Kinda feels like the fault of OEMs for driving people to the web for good content.
- immibis 2y agoAll web APIs are built on the corresponding native APIs - there's no secret bypass mechanism.
- acka 2y agoSounds very similar to the practice of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".