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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @hashseed and

      First, I run standards for Chrome, so I can say categorically that we hold ourselves to a process that is the opposite of "do whatever you want". Next, who do you think the W3C *is*? At TPAC 2 weeks ago, Google sent more engineers and PMs than any two other engines *combined*.

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Our process is documented here: https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features … It *doesn't* gate things on the idea that things have to be standards to be worth adding, but it is more careful in every way about adding risky (new) features than any competing project's process -- *which we all do*.

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    3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      If nobody leads, we never go forward. Chromium imposes a high structural tax on leadership to ensure community feedback is at the center of the process, and that risks are low. The WebVR/XR saga show this process at work.

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @slightlylate @ChrisFerdinandi and

      There was consensus in the WG circa '17 that the then-current spec would need to be overhauled and wasn't going to be the thing to standardise. Other vendors shipped it anyway!

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Turned out the group was right. Today's WebXR specs are very different. Chrome prevented "premature compatibility" about a thing which was the wrong design through Origin Trials: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/OriginTrials/blob/gh-pages/developer-guide.md …

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    6. Chris Ferdinandi  ⚓️‏ @ChrisFerdinandi 6 Oct 2019
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      I appreciate the history and all that Google has done here. I don’t like Chrome’s outsized influence on the platform as a corporate sponsored pseudo-monopoly.

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    7. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @hashseed and

      Cool. Might perhaps then be more effective to request others invest reasonable amounts (which they *absolutely can*) and, perhaps, stop trolling the folks who are struggling to be careful about leadership in the absence of collaboration created by their lack of investment?

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    8. Chris Ferdinandi  ⚓️‏ @ChrisFerdinandi 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @slightlylate @hashseed and

      I’m not trolling. I’m a big fan of your work, Alex. But pushing the idea that “maybe a monoculture is good” when you work at a massive surveillance capitalism employer is dangerous, irrespective of the great work you personally do.

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    9. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @hashseed and

      I'm asking the community to honestly interrogate its priors. *Why* was monoculture bad? I can think of many reasons, but until we dispassionately investigate, we get hung up on the politics and can't see the situation clearly enough to change it.

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    10. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @slightlylate @ChrisFerdinandi and

      I was a web developer back in the Bad Old Days. I remember. What I recall most was that compat constrained competitors when MSFT disbanded IE team in '01/'02. Proprietary gunk, no shared tests, no OSS, underdeveloped specs, etc.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 6 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @slightlylate @ChrisFerdinandi and

      How (or is) the world different today? How does that affect calculus? Folks shouting about engine diversity have to be able to answer what it's *for*.

      5:07 AM - 6 Oct 2019
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        1. Chris Ferdinandi  ⚓️‏ @ChrisFerdinandi 6 Oct 2019
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          Say it with me now, one more time: "It's for ensuring that no one platform/corporation gets to determine the direction the web takes."

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