You mean the Web. It's 27 years old and no Web Browser can risk the chance of breaking the language and APIs used by Millions of Web Apps.https://twitter.com/Silmarieni/status/892376056107347968 …
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The Web is older than many popular languages like Python and Java and arguably has way more line of codes than these two languages combined.
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There are uncountable internal corporate Web Applications that Web Browsers cannot know they even exist, yet we Cannot Break These.
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Good thing, there's an effort to formalize cross-Browser API tests that is under *very active* development. https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests …
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Good thing, most Web Browsers now have a formal process to change the APIs and add new features. No more spaghetti thrown on the wall:
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I think Blink was the first HTML engine to formalize the process: https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features … (correct me if I'm wrong?)
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Mozilla followed suit relatively quickly: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines … (If I'm not mistaken on the timing of the formalization process)
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As Edge matured, they created a Web App (using Web APIs, you know) for community to vote for most valuable Intents: https://status.modern.ie/
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You can follow
@intenttoship to track all the Intents from major Web Browsers! Isn't it amazing? by@dietrich2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
Not everything though - not yet anyway! I’ve got some improvements in the works, hopefully will come this month.
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