I'm not saying I'm hard against the proposal but when it comes to critical infrastructure such as user agents I do wish there was a better infrastructure for determining what features past muster than "the Chrome team feels this is a marginal benefit to users"
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The consequence is asymmetric: the web can continue to withhold this capability (even in a form that can be an on-ramp to something better, as I believe this design is) or it can try to get to a competitive place that lows teams to bet on the web for the long haul.
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Not having this is a frequently cited reason that both sign-up and transaction conversion rates suffer on the web vs. native. Given what I'm seeing about web/native usage, the counterfactual has to include "...and that's how the web died on mobile..."
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