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Whole lotta "shoulds" there. Who is the worldwide authority that has the power to declare Firefox a web standard? Google being "fined for introducing de facto
by IAmBroom 1y ago
Whole lotta "shoulds" there.
Who is the worldwide authority that has the power to declare Firefox a web standard?
Google being "fined for introducing de facto "standards" into mainline Chrome without going thru the W3C" is... wow, a leap of legal imagination. That is not how anything works.
None of this is realistic. We need attainable goals, using concrete steps. Getting Google declared a monopoly: one step. Keeping that ruling intact through the following years: another step (Hello, Microsoft in the 1990's). Establish web standards, beyond the current skeletal concepts: a BIG step.
- Y_Y 1y ago> None of this is realistic. We need attainable goals, using concrete steps. Well you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.[0] Surely it makes sense to have overarching goals, that you can then divide up into little concrete stepping stones. Whether or not your big goal is possible or worthwhile is something you can keep examining along the way. Incremental change is the only kind that you can make happen, but without big-picture direction you'll just skitter around local maxima. [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xI1384Ry4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xI1384Ry4
- rollcat 1y agoI didn't say it should happen overnight, or that this should be the final state of affairs. It isn't about politics, or even corporations simply having control over our daily lives. At some point, it has to be recognised as a necessity, not just for the sake of our culture and legacy, but for our survival as a species. There's no other piece of digital infrastructure as important as the web, and there's hardly anything we do nowadays that doesn't depend on something digital.