For the first time ever, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers. Interop 2022 will improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas. In this article, find out how we got here, what the project focuses on, how success will be measured, and how you can track progress.
I’m all for working together in this industry, since working together usually means better experiences for consumers. Making browsers render websites more consistently is a great goal to strive towards, especially when it’s a joint effort.
That’s nice and good news! I’d wouldn’t use “For the first time ever” however. That was with WHATWG in my opinion.
WHATWG used to propose standards that IE6 refused to implement, working effectively in vain. True that it laid ground for upstarts that have gradually put substance to this standard that was later chosen by developers. Finally implementing it have become a competitive advantage against IE.
But that proves that any standard not embraced by dominant players is dead.
dsmogor,
+1
Indeed. One example is when apple single-handedly refused to support open & royalty free codecs in IOS while also blocking alternative browsers that did. For better or worse companies with a lot of market share have a tremendous amount of power to dictate the technology that consumers use.
“Making browsers render websites more consistently is a great goal to strive towards, especially when it’s a joint effort.”
The standards have been out there for decades, the browser makers need only implement them. They consistently have chosen not to. Back in the day, competition meant IE 5 for the Mac used to have over 95% CSS compliance. This “joint effort” is simply lip service to what competition in the market used to drive.
HTML6 ?
This makes new proposals available to all browsers at the same time. Back during the height of IE versus Netscape, whichever one proposed something that became a de-facto standard had 6 months to a year before the other browsers matched it. The standards committee would approve the concept several years later and any browser that waited for the standard to be released was relegated to obscurity.
Mozilla you rather start regaining some of the lost market share back. As that is the only grantee for healthy future on the internet. If you have sub 5% you are not really a meaningful player on the browser market anymore.
On the other hand, economic and political issues that will overcome the side effects of the opening of the port to Joseon.
I had to cultivate the power. It was such a difficult task.
Military power cultivation is rather easy.
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