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Because competition is good?
The hundreds if not thousands of ad supported calculator and flashlight apps on play store beg to differ.
Reasonable amount of competition is good.
Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page
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#92Track what you and your friends like, build a graph mine that data and earn more ad revenue.
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If building from scratch maybe, but when was the last time a browser was built from scratch? Even Chromium was forked from WebKit.
That's my point. The web is so complex that browser engines are becoming a monoculture. Even if you forked Chromium now, you'd need hundreds of engineers just to keep up with all the new things that are constantly added.
> new things that are constantly added
By golly, that's the problem right there.
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#95It seems like more and more, Google is leveraging their near-monopoly on web browsing to just skip the proposal process and do whatever they want without discussion.
Do you actually follow spec discussions, or are you just guessing? From what I have observed the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari teams are in constant communication. They discuss new features, implementation details, and potential pitfalls. Despite all the suggestions of "browser wars", they're actually very friendly and collaborative.
I think he's right. SPDY and WebP both started as Chrome-only features, and the world has essentially been forced to adopt them.
So far I think that's been a good think on balance because they are good technologies. But it is worrying how much power Google has in this space.
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#96How is this supposed to work when most web pages these days are a mash of dynamically generated javascript?
Same as regular URL hash I guess? (Browsers tend to wait a little if they don't find the target)
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#97Something open, standardized, quite similar and already working is Web annotations. This includes 'robust anchoring' capability which could surely be used to solve this problem.
https://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/
Hypothes.is is a well established open implementation.
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It’s almost as if Google is the new Microsoft!
You mean: the old Microsoft!
No, no, Microsoft was the old Microsoft but now they're the new Apple. Google is the new Microsoft, and Apple looks like the new Google but is actually the old Apple (the old one, mind, not the middle one where Jobs came back). Oh, and Dell is the new Gateway. :P
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What does that even mean? AMP is built on WebComponents, which are an existing web standard. That's no less standard than anything else using custom elements.
They are caching a chunk of the web and routing traffic from google.com to their cache. Since traffic never leaves google.com, it is now in a way the web itself. This is achieved thanks to AMP.
And they are going to hide from the user the fact that they are indeed on AMP page on google server by hiding all prefixes.
They already started doing part of this plan btw - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you actually follow spec discussions, or are you just guessing? From what I have observed the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari teams are in constant communication. They discuss new features, implementation details, and potential pitfalls. Despite all the suggestions of "browser wars", they're actually very friendly and collaborative.
I think he's right. SPDY and WebP both started as Chrome-only features, and the world has essentially been forced to adopt them. So far I think that's been a good think on balance because they are good technologies. But it is worrying how much power Google has in this space.
SPDY was donated to the IETF for adoption into the HTTP/2 standard. Other browser vendors only implemented it at that time.
WebP is a file format and doesn't fall into the normal standardization process. Browsers implement support for new file formats at their own behest.