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posted by martyb on Friday March 20 2020, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Do-No-Evil-Poof!-Gone. dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 20 2020, @09:34PM (1 child)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Friday March 20 2020, @09:34PM (#973636)

    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.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday March 21 2020, @02:55AM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday March 21 2020, @02:55AM (#973725) Journal
    Anyone at google that reads it is either going to disagree, or be on their way out and unable to accomplish anything.
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