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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 5mo ago
It's not pearl clutching to suggest that websites will build around quirks of a specific model and then we'll be stuck with it forever. This is an issue for future Google as much as it is for Mozilla and Apple. We had WebSQL which
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 6mo ago
There's something to be said for the security benefits of not having a JIT though. Especially if you've used Rust for the engine you should have pretty solid security.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/pull/5 - it will be able to do this soon.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill/pull/5 - someone's made a PR that looks like it would allow Mason's polyfill to work directly from the XML file.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Someone's already added a PR to allow exactly that. You just include a script tag within your XML file.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Another big example is mutation events which are gone across the board now.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Why is it better to drop users onto the RSS page and say copy the URL in the address bar, rather than just giving a copy button that puts it on the clipboard and say put this in your RSS app?
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
You've completely disregarded the other examples of breaking changes that have already been made. The open web still survives afterwards. The web isn't immutable no matter how much people might want it to be.
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Fwiw the meetings aren't closed, unlike w3c the whatwg doesn't require paid membership to attend. The bug trackers are also a fine place to provide community feedback. For example there's plenty of comments providing use case
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Thing is the new APIs added to the web are generally quite well specified with quite good tests. These older legacy APIs sometimes don't even have a standard and almost definitely don't have interoperability (XSLT is an example of
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by 8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp 1y ago
Mutation Events were once in all 3 moderns engines plus some legacy ones and is now removed from everything. Third-party cookies are now heavily restricted and while not quite removed everywhere cannot be relied upon. document.domain is no