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Moonchild, the lead developer of the Pale Moon browser writes:
"Dear Web Developer(s),
While, as a software developer ourselves, we understand very well that new features are exciting to use and integrate into your work, we ask that you please consider not adopting Google WebComponents in your designs. This is especially important if you are a web developer creating frameworks for websites to use.
With Google WebComponents here we mean the use of CustomElements and Shadow DOM, especially when used in combination, and in dynamically created document structures (e.g. using module loading/unloading and/or slotted elements).Why is this important?
For several reasons, but primarily because it completely goes against the traditional structure of the web being an open and accessible place that isn't inherently locked down to opaque structures or a single client. WebComponents used "in full" (i.e. dynamically) inherently creates complex web page structures that cannot be saved, archived or even displayed outside of the designated targeted browsers (primarily Google Chrome).
One could even say that this is setting the web up for becoming fully content-controlled."
https://about.google/: "Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
Useful to... whom?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by turgid on Friday March 20 2020, @08:52PM (5 children)
One corporation should not have control over the World Wide Web.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 20 2020, @09:34PM (1 child)
Absolutely. I'm just saying if you don't like that library, having two people at google read your complaints may have more of an effect than having two web developers across the board. And if the web developers complain, you get more of a multiplicative effect too.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday March 21 2020, @02:55AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Saturday March 21 2020, @01:28PM (1 child)
I guess most of today's web devs, and Google coders, aren't old enough to remember back when sites had stupid warnings like "Best if viewed in Internet Explorer" when Microsoft decided to add its own gizmos to HTML. I joked on my site "Best if viewed in the other browser".
I found that I could make my site do Microsoft stuff in Netscape without Microsoft's proprietary nonsense.
Hey, developers: If you don't stick to standards, you're stupid, and Google is stupid for foisting this nonsense on us.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @07:59PM
Ah yes...I remember someone once asked me to rewrite our site (hosted on an old Sun 3/60 at the time) to 'take advantage of the extra features that IE offered'....so I made liberal use of the <marquee> tag...every word scrolling in different directions...
He never specified that it had to be readable in IE..
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday March 21 2020, @03:48PM
You're right, that is why it'll be 3 or 4 corporations cooperating to have control.