TIL about "origin trials" - a neat way of trialing experimental implementations of new potential web standards in an opt-in manner, intended to avoid the chaos caused when experiments prematurely become de-facto standards https://github.com/GoogleChrome/OriginTrials …https://twitter.com/stubbornella/status/1128669469008470016 …
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I love that "shamelessly stole" is open standards speak for "ran with the idea proposed by Jacob at an open brainstorming session he organized at a W3C event"
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Glad you gave him the shout out, I recall that idea being proposed. Honestly, we (the royal we [eg: Jacob]) always wanted to follow through on that - had other priorities to focus on though :)
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Still waiting on my open source royalties for this ...

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OTs seem great for companies with the resources to dedicate effort to risky features but hard to justify at small companies. This isn't damning but it means the kind of data they gather isn't as broad as you think.
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There's no question that they're better than vendor prefixes.
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