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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @10:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @10:02PM (#973652)

    Stop using god dang "frameworks".

    I can compile linux kernels at a fraction of time it used to take. Web? The same damn banking/commerce/media sites makes me nostalgic of the dial-up days.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday March 21 2020, @03:37PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday March 21 2020, @03:37PM (#973848) Homepage Journal

    Pages loaded faster back then, but they didn't pull ads from dozens of sites on one page* and didn't have video in them all.

    * I do pull graphics for some of my pages from other sites occasionally

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