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This is one huge blindspot in the web spec process in my opinion. Any new spec is considered on the context of existing browsers and very little consideration s

This is one huge blindspot in the web spec process in my opinion. Any new spec is considered on the context of existing browsers and very little consideration seems to be given to the scope of the web standards as a whole.

zelphirkalt 1y ago
Perhaps there should be levels of conformance and important businesses and government platforms should be required to work on all browsers that support at least level X, where level X is not everything and the kitchen sink, but really only the minimal stuff. No SPA, just forms and such basic things, accessibility should be very high and mandatory etc.
troupo 1y ago
There's also no actual way of saying "no" to a web standard. The whole process is designed around moving a spec forward through stages. To quote Rich Harris, the author of Svelte: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1841605646128460111 https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1841605646128460111 --- start quote --- saying 'no' is the key to good software design, but in standards you can only 'champion' proposals — you can't champion the _lack_ of a proposal. the best you can hope for is inertia. in my experience the only feedback that is welcome is around the details of an idea, never around whether the idea has merit in the first place, and you should expect to be reminded that implementers are the only people whose opinions actually matter. --- end quote --- and someone else in the same conversation: --- start quote --- You can't practically anti-champion standards that are small improvements to features that ought to have been abandoned, like Shadow DOM. Shadow DOM sucks, but it sucked a little less when they added CSS Module Scripts, Selection.getComposedRanges(), ElementInternals.shadowRoot… https://x.com/dfabu/status/1841936377350652391 https://x.com/dfabu/status/1841936377350652391 ---

zelphirkalt 1y ago

Perhaps there should be levels of conformance and important businesses and government platforms should be required to work on all browsers that support at least level X, where level X is not everything and the kitchen sink, but really only the minimal stuff. No SPA, just forms and such basic things, accessibility should be very high and mandatory etc.

troupo 1y ago

There's also no actual way of saying "no" to a web standard. The whole process is designed around moving a spec forward through stages. To quote Rich Harris, the author of Svelte: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1841605646128460111 https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1841605646128460111 --- start quote --- saying 'no' is the key to good software design, but in standards you can only 'champion' proposals — you can't champion the _lack_ of a proposal. the best you can hope for is inertia. in my experience the only feedback that is welcome is around the details of an idea, never around whether the idea has merit in the first place, and you should expect to be reminded that implementers are the only people whose opinions actually matter. --- end quote --- and someone else in the same conversation: --- start quote --- You can't practically anti-champion standards that are small improvements to features that ought to have been abandoned, like Shadow DOM. Shadow DOM sucks, but it sucked a little less when they added CSS Module Scripts, Selection.getComposedRanges(), ElementInternals.shadowRoot… https://x.com/dfabu/status/1841936377350652391 https://x.com/dfabu/status/1841936377350652391 ---